The web may be brain-ruining, but at least this comedian can share videos of an Irish family taking on a bat, Reuben Kaye and a very misspelled menuGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe internet. The sweet provider of free Tetris and Vine comp…
Continue ReadingSome lied. Some hid it. And few ever mined it for jokes. Becoming a mum used to be near-fatal to a comedian’s career. But now, in a Mother’s Day special, we meet the new wave taking on taboos‘Before I had kids, I swam in an ocean of time,” says Josie L…
Continue ReadingBest known for his inventive work with Tim and Eric, the absurdist comic talks about playing it straight as a ‘legit’ singer-songwriter, and his newest creation: a ‘belligerent and terrible’ standup comedianGrowing up, Tim Heidecker didn’t know who he …
Continue ReadingBest known for his inventive work with Tim and Eric, the absurdist comic talks about playing it straight as a ‘legit’ singer-songwriter, and his newest creation: a ‘belligerent and terrible’ standup comedianGrowing up, Tim Heidecker didn’t know who he …
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonAustralian comic delivers a compelling but messy exploration of grief – but where’s the bear?The “dead dad” show has become a standup genre unto itself in recent years – but that isn’t the half of it in Aussie act Michelle Brasier’s…
Continue ReadingWhen a podcast by Seamas Carey created a storm, he began investigating second homes, cream on scones …. and where local pride meets unwelcoming xenophobia. Now he’s taking his one man show on the roadAfter Seamas Carey interviewed Eden Project founder …
Continue ReadingAfter several years away, the cheeky cockney comic is doubling down on his good-old-days brand – but despite his geezerish nostalgia he’s no anti-woke crusaderMicky Flanagan was worried, he says, that audiences might have moved on. Fair enough: it has …
Continue ReadingA new sibling to Montreal’s big comedy shindig has launched in the UK and despite the corporate guff there was a lot to laugh aboutYou’ve heard of Just for Laughs Montreal: it’s one of the world’s biggest comedy festivals. But Just for Laughs London? T…
Continue ReadingRich Hardisty cut himself, Harriet Dyer numbed her pain with drugs. A new wave of comics are working out their issues in their acts. But is it really helping them? And should we be laughing?The first and maybe only rule of comedy is that it has to be f…
Continue ReadingComedian lays into victimhood, Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband during his new standup show, saying ‘she hurt him way more than he hurt me’Chris Rock has spoken at length for the first time about being slapped by Will Smith during the Oscars, almost …
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