Brighton DomeRanganathan’s Hustle delivers laughs, but not the shock of the new. It is at its best when we glimpse something meaningful beneath the standard-issue curmudgeonliness‘I’ll be honest with you: I’m getting sick of me too.” His TV ubiquity no…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonPhil Burgers made clowning hip after winning the Edinburgh comedy award in 2012. Now older, if not wiser, his new show is a little undercooked, but his skill as a performer is undeniableClown is the hippest thing in comedy right now…
Continue ReadingThe standup comedian shares what makes her laugh online, including Gino D’Acampo getting mad, the Lonely Island and a scared man paraglidingI’m Urooj Ashfaq and I’m a standup comedian. The best way to describe my relationship to the internet is: taxing…
Continue ReadingThe standup comedian shares what makes her laugh online, including Gino D’Acampo getting mad, the Lonely Island and a scared man paraglidingI’m Urooj Ashfaq and I’m a standup comedian. The best way to describe my relationship to the internet is: taxing…
Continue ReadingThe huge success of her memoir has turbocharged the Scottish comedian’s career, with midlife, Catholicism and marriage in her withering sightsCynicism is now and then expressed about the phenomenon of comedians writing books. Rare is the instance of a …
Continue ReadingAt the world’s biggest barrel of laughs, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Rose Matafeo rub shoulders with homegrown stars-in-the-making. Our writer has the time of his lifeWhat’s the biggest comedy festival in the world? Parochial Britons would say Edinb…
Continue ReadingThe chilling, visceral, deeply compelling comedy-drama has caused shock waves worldwide since launching last weekend. But what about the experiences that inspired it?When Richard Gadd wrote Monkey See Monkey Do for the Edinburgh fringe in 2016, he says…
Continue ReadingThe comedian on her favourite new painter, the downfall of Diddy, and wanting to save Britney SpearsBorn in Ontario, Canada in 1983, comedian Katherine Ryan won the Funny Women award in 2008. Since then she has appeared on numerous TV sitcoms and panel…
Continue ReadingThe British standup loves watching people falling off chairs, old men earnestly explain sandwiches and Will Ferrell bloopers. But who doesn’t?I’m hardly on social media so I rely on good friends to send me clips and videos that they think I might enjoy…
Continue ReadingHer Tory parody videos shot her to fame online in 2020. As her skits go on stage, she talks about her path into comedy and what a Labour win would mean for her actThese days, Rosie Holt finds it hard to travel light. She’s only popping to Liverpool for…
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