The comedy writer, performer and satirical video producer on the things that make him laugh the mostI once went to see David Kay in Edinburgh. I started laughing from the moment he came on the stage and was only able to pause for breath when he left. C…
Continue ReadingThe producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life’s little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetryComedians become actors, pop stars become TV presenters … we’re used to ar…
Continue ReadingThe producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life’s little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetryComedians become actors, pop stars become TV presenters … we’re used to ar…
Continue ReadingThe comedian, 33, talks about funny anger, homophobic hecklers, selling soffits and his trouble with Heinz pasta shapesAnger is a funny emotion. That’s how I accidentally got my consumer show. In my stand-up set, I’d read out my complaint letters. My g…
Continue ReadingThe comedian, 33, talks about funny anger, homophobic hecklers, selling soffits and his trouble with Heinz pasta shapesAnger is a funny emotion. That’s how I accidentally got my consumer show. In my stand-up set, I’d read out my complaint letters. My g…
Continue ReadingAssembly Festival Garden, CoventryOlivia Miller dazzles in this tart and punky solo show, which reimagines the Tudor monarch as an in-yer-face Gen-Z teenYou might consider the fraught life of Mary Tudor, England’s first queen, for a long time before th…
Continue ReadingAssembly Festival Garden, CoventryOlivia Miller dazzles in this tart and punky solo show, which reimagines the Tudor monarch as an in-yer-face Gen-Z teenYou might consider the fraught life of Mary Tudor, England’s first queen, for a long time before th…
Continue ReadingThe actor, writer and ventriloquist gets to the heart of the things that make her laugh the mostSo many favourites, but Mae Martin live, even when they’re just working out new stuff, is bloody exquisite. And I gigged with Harry Hill for the first time …
Continue ReadingThe actor, writer and ventriloquist gets to the heart of the things that make her laugh the mostSo many favourites, but Mae Martin live, even when they’re just working out new stuff, is bloody exquisite. And I gigged with Harry Hill for the first time …
Continue ReadingCush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage Continue reading…
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