The comedian and TV writer on a cringeworthy moment with Charli xcx, his viral September videos, and why we should forgive Don Cheadle’s cockney accentGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOn 21 September each year between 2016 and 2021, you made …
Continue ReadingThe standup on his encounters with fans, cracking up his co-stars on Flight of the Conchords and why AI should stay away from artWho did you look up to when you were starting out?I had an obsession with BBC comedy, mainly sitcoms and Monty Python. The …
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonChatty waiters, visiting the loo in company and overinvesting in sexual role-play are uproariously discussed alongside covers of Madonna, Britney and Dolly PartonFor fans of a certain brand of comedy – the comedy that exposes self-f…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonIt’s not as big-hitting as her debut but this sophomore comedy show proves Gray is a brilliant entertainer and wind-up merchant To say that Jordan Gray made an eye-catching entrance into comedy would be quite the understatement. Her…
Continue ReadingUnderbelly Boulevard, LondonDylan MarcAurele’s musical comedy couldn’t be trashier but there’s fun to be had mixing twerking with 1400s TuscanyThe Pope vapes, Michelangelo uses Zoom, and Leonardo da Vinci foretells the career of Marisa Tomei. This is n…
Continue ReadingRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, London Thin tale of neighbourly spirit is loaded with groansome gags but the hoedowns and show tunes are full of flavourAw, shucks. There’s plenty to love about this US import, a country musical with a zany corn obsessio…
Continue Reading@sohoplace, London A new arrival at Alcoholics Anonymous meets with his apparently composed sponsor in David Ireland’s knotty, often hilarious two-handerJack Lowden wasn’t away from the stage for as long as his Slow Horses co-star Gary Oldman but it’s …
Continue ReadingRichmond theatre, London Ted Lasso star’s return as his camp and bumptious northern know-it-all alter ego also makes room for more of the real MohammedThe last time I saw Nick Mohammed live, I witnessed one of the all-time theatri…
Continue ReadingBush theatre, London Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humourIn the week that Keir Starmer warned that immigrants might reduce Britain to …
Continue ReadingNoël Coward theatre, LondonThe sheer rate of jokes, from groanworthy to dynamite, may leave you crying helpless tears of laughter in this farce from the Mischief company‘Vodka martini.” “Shaken?” “Yes, but I’ll be fine.” If groanworthy jokes of that ca…
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