Vaudeville theatre, LondonRuPaul’s Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards rampages into the West End and has an easy way with the crowd“My favourite subject is talking about me,” Alyssa Edwards tells us – so she must really be enjoying her West End show, in whi…
Continue ReadingJoyce Grenfell inspired her, she wrote her own musical at school and a fringe theatre show with Julie Walters paved the way to TV fame. As Victoria Wood’s Talent returns, we revisit her early stage yearsAnyone who has watched her in Dinnerladies or rec…
Continue ReadingAvailable onlineThe age of peak podcast meets its match in John-Luke Roberts and his procession of hilariously titled imaginary showsIn 2018, John-Luke Roberts’s Edinburgh show consisted entirely of names of hitherto unheard-of Spice Girls. He’s up to …
Continue ReadingAvailable onlinePart behind-the-scenes doc and part reiteration of Gethard’s faith in comedy, this is a vivid portrait of a peripatetic lifeChris Gethard’s new film opens with the 40-year-old performing at 9am to a pancake-guzzling audience in Buffalo,…
Continue ReadingNetflix With electro-pop social commentary, bleak humour and sock-puppet debates, the comic’s lockdown creation is astonishingWell, now we know what Bo Burnham did with his lockdown. Inside is his new Netflix special, created alone in his LA home throu…
Continue ReadingThe Australian actor, composer and comedian on the things that make her laugh the mostJohn Mulaney is a master of his craft and I’ll always be a sucker for bits that include impressions of an old man in a raincoat and rain hat yelling about ducks. Rela…
Continue ReadingThe Australian actor, composer and comedian on the things that make her laugh the mostJohn Mulaney is a master of his craft and I’ll always be a sucker for bits that include impressions of an old man in a raincoat and rain hat yelling about ducks. Rela…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, London Newman dissects ideas with intelligence, running around the houses and back, on themes from politics and humanity to parenthoodA masked audience is a novelty at his gigs, Rob Newman tells us. A sparsely populated auditorium: not so…
Continue ReadingSteve Coogan’s blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UKAlan Partridge is to embark on a UK arena tour to heal a “scissored isle” that is less united than…
Continue ReadingSteve Coogan’s blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UKAlan Partridge is to embark on a UK arena tour to heal a “scissored isle” that is less united than…
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