The Bake Off regular on the complexity of grief, the importance of dressing well and why he’s always fancied himself as a vicarComedian Tom Allen, 39, grew up in Bromley and trained with the National Youth theatre. He started standup aged 22, winning S…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonLyons raises her personal demons so she can publicly refuse to play by their rules in this complex comedy-horror crossoverThe eye-popping final sequence of Elf Lyons’s Raven unfolds to Rage Against the Machine’s cacophonous Killing …
Continue ReadingThe standup and author on American-British rants, why Saturday Night Live wouldn’t work in the UK and the joy of offending Winnebago ownersYour current show is called Shot from Cannons. What is it about?The first half is grampa throwing slippers at the…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve‘Just a very long-winded way of shouting boo.” So says the hero of Daniel Kitson’s…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve‘Just a very long-winded way of shouting boo.” So says the hero of Daniel Kitson’s…
Continue ReadingHe breezed into the Edinburgh fringe late with just half a show – and won the ‘Oscar of comedy’. In his first ever face-to-face interview, the eccentric Aussie standup reveals what’s next (‘Something’)Here’s how the Edinburgh fringe usually figures in …
Continue ReadingFarnham Maltings, Surrey The Portsmouth native is good company, cheerfully goofing around for our entertainment, but the set feels one draft short of its full potentialNew baby. Spiking anxiety. The state of the world. You can see how the component par…
Continue ReadingO2 Arena, London The controversial US podcaster finds fertile material challenging society’s sensitivities – yet while his standup takes pains to short-circuit offence, fear of emasculation underpins too many of the gags“Talking shit used to be fun,” c…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonRubina Pabani and Poppy Jay hop between banter, song and comedy skits in a show with a solid emotional and political coreYou get a particular type of laughter, undergirded by gasps of joy and recognition, when a crowd hears its own …
Continue ReadingYou can use the internet to buy uranium on the dark web or laugh at this list, which includes Aunty Donna, a bad Drake cake and a sketch so funny that Dave thought he might dieGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe internet can be used for many…
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