NetflixPuncturing his country’s national stereotypes stays just the right side of charming in Eldjárn’s twinkly routine‘First Icelandic standup on Netflix” may be as hollow a claim as “the most Nobel prize-winners in the world per capita” – a compatrio…
Continue ReadingWe asked Australian comedians to supply the stuff that makes them giggle online. Laura Davis may be in New Zealand, but she’s given us the goodsHello, I’m Laura Davis. I’m an Australian comedian who normally lives in London, but I’ve ended up unexpecte…
Continue ReadingWe asked Australian comedians to supply the stuff that makes them giggle online. Laura Davis may be in New Zealand, but she’s given us the goodsHello, I’m Laura Davis. I’m an Australian comedian who normally lives in London, but I’ve ended up unexpecte…
Continue ReadingNatalie Palamides’s drag king show remains both raucous and subtle, as it explores grey areas around consentThere can be sacrifices when live comedy transfers to TV – and I expected them with Natalie Palamides’ hot-button anarcho-clown show Nate. But s…
Continue ReadingNatalie Palamides’s drag king show remains both raucous and subtle, as it explores grey areas around consentThere can be sacrifices when live comedy transfers to TV – and I expected them with Natalie Palamides’ hot-button anarcho-clown show Nate. But s…
Continue ReadingComedy duo The Pin have livened up lockdown with their Zoom send-ups. Now their end-of-the-pier stage debut is being hailed as ‘the cure for theatre’. Is that why so many stars are lining up to get involved?If you’d placed a bet on which comedians woul…
Continue ReadingThe gruesome decline and drugs-related death of the comedy icon has overshadowed his legacy, says his widow Judy, who welcomes a new film showing him as a sensitive star full of doubtsCan you disentangle the life of John Belushi from his tragic death? …
Continue ReadingFrom Polly Lister playing a dozen characters in Scarborough’s Snow Queen to Tom Binns’s solitary Buttons, one is fun for 2020’s pantomimes‘The length of each act should be the length of a child’s bladder,” Polly Lister laughs. “You never want it to spi…
Continue ReadingLive stream from Sydney, available onlineIf the performer gets in the way of himself and his impressive lyrical skills, the best of him still shines through in a fine setReactions to Tim Minchin have always been extreme: you either find him brilliant, …
Continue ReadingLive stream from Sydney, available onlineIf the performer gets in the way of himself and his impressive lyrical skills, the best of him still shines through in a fine setReactions to Tim Minchin have always been extreme: you either find him brilliant, …
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