We asked funny people for their favourite bits of the web. For Scottish comic Daniel Sloss, in Australia for the comedy festivals, it’s mostly on YouTubeI’m a 30-year-old stand-up comedian who has grown up with it and never known anything else, so it’s…
Continue ReadingHe started out learning his craft on a school work experience programme. Now the comic is about to make history with the first standup special from Africa.It’s not every day a comedian can claim to have made history. Step forward Loyiso Gola, whose new…
Continue ReadingThe After Life and PRU star and comic recounts her love of anarchic late night live TV, from Friday Night Live to The Word There was a lot more live telly on when I was growing up in the 80s. It all seemed to come to an end once the likes of Shaun Ryde…
Continue ReadingIn the second of our two-parter, rock stars, roadies, actors, dancers, composers and comics describe how their lives have been transformed without live shows – and imagine what now lies ahead‘The nation needed a rescue from despair’: Part 1 of culture’…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineJust the Tonic’s three-hour standup sprawl comes close to the comedy club experience, featuring Matt Forde’s Boris tribute and Jason Byrne’s toilet trumpet alongside Vegas“A year into lockdown, here we are,” says Just the Tonic supremo …
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineRussell Kane saves the day with energetic Covid gags as technical issues and uninspired material blight the first edition of a new standup seriesLIVENow has streamed “a string of successful live concerts”, blared the publicity, by the l…
Continue ReadingAhead of his 99th birthday tomorrow, it’s been announced that Carl Reiner’s archives will be donated to the National Comedy… MORE
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The comedian, standup, writer, and actor on the things that make him laugh the mostDave Chappelle at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2015. In terms of cold, hard, audience-in-the-palm-of-their-hand standup grandmastery, I’ve never seen anything like it. Cont…
Continue ReadingMaya Rudolph is coming back to TV. It’s been announced that the SNL alumni is teaming up again with her… MORE
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We all have that thought in the back of our head at one point or another. “What would I be… MORE
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