The comedian and former face of Tip Top bread in New Zealand shares her favourite videos, including an orchestral mishap and Obama’s ‘anger management translator’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast!I have an all or not…
Continue ReadingSpeech is out. Daft captions are in. Nearly everyone is beautiful. And one guy amassed 11m followers while living in emergency accommodation with his mum. Our critic samples TikTok comedyI’m used to consuming jokes and sketches as part of shows, as com…
Continue ReadingSpeech is out. Daft captions are in. Nearly everyone is beautiful. And one guy amassed 11m followers while living in emergency accommodation with his mum. Our critic samples TikTok comedyI’m used to consuming jokes and sketches as part of shows, as com…
Continue ReadingMenier Chocolate Factory, LondonThe misadventures of a hapless hero led astray by his false friend are funny but don’t quite fill three dimensionsThere was a setback last month for this play inspired by a hit podcast when co-writer and performer Harry …
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineThe age of peak podcast meets its match in John-Luke Roberts and his procession of hilariously titled imaginary showsIn 2018, John-Luke Roberts’s Edinburgh show consisted entirely of names of hitherto unheard-of Spice Girls. He’s up to …
Continue ReadingThe cult show that splices Evil Dead II with Elvis Presley hits is now on video cassette as standups hark back to retro formatsThe movie was a sequel to one of the original video nasties, so what better format for a stage show that pays it tribute? Com…
Continue ReadingThe comedian’s new podcast is bursting with enthusiasm for poems. If standup forces him to be funny, here he forces himself to be true‘Phwooar – Ginsy Ginsy Ginsy, I love you so much!” You won’t find that in FR Leavis. The “Ginsy” in question is beat p…
Continue ReadingFor the first minute or so, I try to remember how to deliver coherent sentences – but people are laughingThis is the longest period I have gone without gigging since I started as a comic. It looks as if we’re moving towards indoor performances again, b…
Continue ReadingEdinburgh University’s ImprovBot uses data from eight years of past productions to invent tantalising no-showsYou can see how it happens. The company has yet to start devising the show, but the deadline for the Edinburgh fringe programme is tomorrow. O…
Continue ReadingComedians’ old YouTube skits are enjoying a revival in lockdown. And now standups are returning to online video – to push its possibilities even furtherAt a house party in the north-east of England, teenagers are congregating around a computer, recitin…
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