Comedian said last year he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and retiring from standup Richard Lewis, Larry David’s co-star in Curb Your Enthusiasm and a beloved standup comedian has died at the age of 76.Lewis said last year that he was suffering…
Continue ReadingThis comedian loves what he calls ‘hard watches’ – but who doesn’t love Aunty Donna, bad American Idol auditions and impressions of Boomers answering the phone?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMy love of the internet started young, and it is …
Continue ReadingThe standup on delusional confidence, her heroes and bugbears – and why she hasn’t bought a gold-plated toilet with her OnlyFans contest winningsWhy did you get into standup?I always liked performing. I did dance and piano when I was younger – to a med…
Continue ReadingBrighton DomeThe comedian guides us through this life-and-death tale of seizure, diagnosis and treatment with his usual brand of self-deprecationWe have all seen comedians die on stage. Is Miles Jupp’s new show about a comedian dying offstage? “We’ll f…
Continue ReadingThirty years after his death, the Texan who set out to ‘topple idols’ remains an outlaw truth-teller for many but his raging material can land with a clunkI could mark out my comedy critic’s life in Bill Hicks anniversaries. When I first started writin…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonThe fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottinessThere’s a formula for a comedian’s first show, and it’s “this is me”: an hour abo…
Continue ReadingThoughtifier, a new European tour, brings familiar whimsy from the Strictly Come Dancing champ. But does the mirth cramp his musical stylings?Forty years into his performing career, you know what you’re going to get with Bill Bailey. Musical noodling: …
Continue ReadingPark theatre, LondonA rich and messy revival explores ideas of belonging, with the Desperate Housewives star playing a determinedly indifferent matriarchChaos reigns. Every inch of Paige’s home is a domestic dumping ground. This rich and messy revival …
Continue ReadingSalisbury PlayhouseA fitfully funny play from the creator of Broadchurch considers the terrifying prospects of parenthood yet never quite deliversHere’s a perfect prop for farce: a huge, baby-blue birthing pool, stubbornly resisting inflation, plonked …
Continue ReadingModel-turned-standup Michelle De Swarte knows how to make an entrance. And arriving at Grace’s with her eat-it-or-climb-it comfort snack of choice, she doesn’t disappoint. For the woman who left school at 14, signed as a model at 19, fell on the Gucci …
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