The comic on idolising Russell Howard, spending summer away from the Edinburgh fringe and lying to cabbiesWhy did you get into comedy?I started standup as a teenager despite being painfully shy. I loved the feeling of making people laugh, but the thoug…
Continue ReadingLong derided, improvisational comedy is now attracting big-name stars such as Kiell Smith-Bynoe and One Day’s Ambika Mod. There’s more to it than showing off, they say – and don’t get them started on Whose Line Is It Anyway?It’s Saturday night and I’m …
Continue ReadingThis gen Z comedian is perfectly placed to pick the internet’s funniest titbits, including Natalie Portman rapping, Hot Department and crying over LMFAOThe first time I remember using a computer was my grandad’s chunky desktop. I remember playing a Fin…
Continue ReadingThe comedian and host of Taskmaster Australia on athletics, germs and the skit that was ‘too sexual’ to airRead more 10 Chaotic QuestionsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhat’s been your most cringeworthy run-in with a celebrity?I was maybe 2…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonUK-specific jokes land well as Sloan shapes the energy in a packed room with a slightly incoherent show held together by her charisma Dulcé Sloan, a seven-year veteran of The Daily Show, feared that that pedigree would leave her wit…
Continue ReadingThey came out of the blue and electrified Edinburgh with absurdist takes on Americana. Now the US pair are doing all three hits back to back – and dreaming of not having to share a roomIt’s a story to keep Edinburgh fringe dreams alive. On their own di…
Continue ReadingThey came out of the blue and electrified Edinburgh with absurdist takes on Americana. Now the US pair are doing all three hits back to back – and dreaming of not having to share a roomIt’s a story to keep Edinburgh fringe dreams alive. On their own di…
Continue ReadingMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonAs a gym-bunny vampire channelling Frank-N-Furter, James Daly leads a superb cast in a gender and genre-inverting romp that lacks biteBefore they took on Bram Stoker’s vampire count, co-writers Gordon Greenberg and Steve…
Continue ReadingMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonAs a gym-bunny vampire channelling Frank-N-Furter, James Daly leads a superb cast in a gender and genre-inverting romp that lacks biteBefore they took on Bram Stoker’s vampire count, co-writers Gordon Greenberg and Steve…
Continue ReadingThe British comedian on being shot into space by Jeff Bezos, his nightmarish run-in with a fan and the thing he loves most about AustraliaRead more 10 Chaotic QuestionsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWould you rather die at the bottom of the…
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