Alfie Brown: Sensitive Man review – contrarian comic with a devilish twinkle

Soho theatre, LondonThe twisty satirist considers mental health, white privilege and youth with vividly acted, wittily phrased jokesComedy audiences, we’re told, are too sensitive these days. Not so, says Alfie Brown: they’re righteous, which isn’t the…

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Homeless stars, endless spaghetti and amplified farts: the comedians of TikTok

Speech 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…

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Homeless stars, endless spaghetti and amplified farts: the comedians of TikTok

Speech 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…

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Foo Fighters made a comedy horror film, “Studio 666”

Dave Grohl and his Foo Fighters band mates are making the leap to the big screen in a new horror… MORE
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I’m a comedian and banter is my job – this is the truth about racist jokes | Shazia Mirza

The Yorkshire cricket race row shows people are still claiming that abuse is just acceptable joshing. It isn’t“I like your handbag!” I say.“It was only a pound, from the pound shop,” she says.Shazia Mirza is a comedian. Her latest show, Coconut, is on …

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I’m a comedian and banter is my job – this is the truth about racist jokes | Shazia Mirza

The Yorkshire cricket race row shows people are still claiming that abuse is just acceptable joshing. It isn’t“I like your handbag!” I say.“It was only a pound, from the pound shop,” she says.Shazia Mirza is a comedian. Her latest show, Coconut, is on …

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Ahir Shah: Dress review – laughs about life under lockdown

Soho theatre, LondonCoronavirus and woke capitalism lead to pleasing, if patchy, polemics in the comic’s latest show“A chronicle of everything that’s happened to me over the last 18 months,” is how Ahir Shah introduces his new show, Dress. It begins wi…

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Michael Che’s next Netflix special, “Shame the Devil,” comes out 11/16

One of the things that Michael Che loves to do is to post joke Netflix special titles on Instagram and… MORE
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Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto review – Twitter activist misfires on all cylinders

Duchess theatre, LondonAndrew Doyle’s Twitter creation – played by Alice Marshall – takes predictable aim at Greta, Meghan and trans athletes with jokes that just aren’t funnyTitania McGrath, the “radical intersectionalist poet and Twitter activist” cr…

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Brian & Roger: A Highly Offensive Play review – podcast duo’s OTT exploits

Menier 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 …

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