NetflixThe US standup has his say on celebrity culture and Covid, but not the Oscars row, and ends up buffering his own ego in a new special‘It’s my fucking household, I’m not holding back!” That’s the conceit of Kevin Hart’s latest special, filmed che…
Continue ReadingToday, we learned that Judd Apatow is making the leap to Netflix for his next film. Apatow, whose last film… MORE
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She 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…
Continue ReadingAs he publishes a moving memoir, the comedian and Bake Off contestant tormentor talks about homophobic heckles, still living with his parents – and why he’s never been in loveIn a deserted office overlooking the Thames, Tom Allen is admiring the view. …
Continue ReadingYouTube In character as an offensively aggressive comic, Heidecker weaves dodgy jokes with engaging meta twists, but ultimately a lack of variety spoils the partyParody hack standup is a genre all of its own, with its own superstars (Neil Hamburger) ro…
Continue ReadingStand-up comedian Norm Crosby, who was nicknamed as The Master of Malaprop, passed away this morning at the age of… MORE
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Amazon Prime VideoThe American comic largely abstains from telling about his adventures in celibacy in a slick and wry standup specialIt’s an odd one, this. American comic Kevin James Doyle has secured an Amazon Prime Video special with The 30 Year Old…
Continue ReadingIf the system was really sophisticated, it would trigger a call to a dieticianI recently received a text asking me to verify whether I had made a recent purchase. This is something that happens a lot, as my bank is triggered by anything that doesn’t ap…
Continue ReadingFollowing yesterday’s roundup of music, games, books, TV, dance and visual art, our critics continue their picks of culture to lift the spirits during tough timesCulture to cheer you up: part oneBringing Up Baby (1938) Here is the classic screwball com…
Continue ReadingHe simply doesn’t stop. Kevin Fredericks, who is best known in the world of comedy as KevOnStage, started building up… MORE
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