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 …
Continue ReadingThe 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 …
Continue ReadingSoho 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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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…
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 ReadingLeicester Square theatre, LondonThe comic who showered Fifa’s Sepp Blatter with banknotes reveals little of the person under the character comedy maskWhat a coy coming-out party of a show this is from Simon Brodkin, emerging from behind the character-c…
Continue ReadingThere’s been another shakeup in the production of the Sony comedy Oh Hell No. The first production delay came after… MORE
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Comedian and satirist who revolutionised US standup in the 1950s, skewering politicians of every hueThe comedian and satirist Mort Sahl, who has died aged 94, was a combination of Lenny Bruce and Bob Hope – with a little Will Rogers thrown in. Like Bru…
Continue ReadingCanadian-born comedian who rose to fame in the 1950s credited with ‘yanking comedy into the modern age’Tributes have been paid to the trailblazing standup comedian Mort Sahl after his death at the age of 94.The Canadian-born comic was credited with rev…
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