The comedian’s new podcast plunders neighbourhood messageboards for fun, feuds, gossip and second-hand goldfish. She explains all – and looks ahead to her Edinburgh show, a support group for men in crisisJayde Adams is flying the flag for that most mal…
Continue ReadingCan you do a whole standup set about blowjobs? The New York comedian thinks so, but don’t assume her show is a feminist rallying cry “Even I would be irritated hearing about this show if I wasn’t me,” admits Jacqueline Novak, who is attempting to accur…
Continue ReadingShaparak Khorsandi and Esther Manito both came of age during a time when women were expect to comform to male stereotypes. To reflect, they did what they do best: wrote comedy shows about itWhen Shaparak Khorsandi’s teenage son recently discovered 90s …
Continue ReadingKomedia, BrightonThe comic’s swaggering take on religion is ebullient before a handbrake-turn brings emotional candour tooLuisa Omielan’s last show, Politics for Bitches, ostensibly about public affairs, devolved into a personal tale of her mother’s de…
Continue ReadingGet Off! was set up by Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Nina Gilligan in order to create safer workplaces within little-regulated industryAn organisation has been established to tackle sexual harassment in the UK comedy industry. Get Off! Live Comedy was laun…
Continue ReadingThe comic has come blazing out of lockdown fearless and on full throttle, buying a motorbike for her 50th birthday and turning the menopause – along with an incident in a park – into comedy gold‘I must tell you how old I’m going to be when I die,” says…
Continue ReadingLast night, FX debuted a new documentary. Hysterical, after debuting at the virtual SXSW back in March. The film examines… MORE
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Live comedy’s lack of regulation has enabled sexist and predatory behaviour but a group of female standups have ambitious plans to overhaul the industryIrish comedian Ruth Hunter started standup in 2015. She immediately noticed “everyday sexism” – male…
Continue ReadingCarmen Ali and Siân Docksey are among the comedians who riff on their experiences as strippers. The pandemic has revealed both industries to be precarious – but they’re looking out for each otherWhat do standup comedy and stripping have in common? “I s…
Continue ReadingShe was living on beans. Now she’s in LA writing Ms Marvel, the eagerly awaited TV series starring MCU’s first Muslim superhero. The writer talks about joyriding premiers and how to silence trollsBefore she became a Marvel screenwriter, Bisha K Ali was…
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