With this year’s Edinburgh festival cancelled, performers including Sara Pascoe, Deborah Frances-White and Gary McNair will be broadcasting live from the tiniest of venuesIt started as a throwaway pun. With the Edinburgh festival cancelled by Covid-19,…
Continue ReadingCadogan Hall, LondonIn a global livestream, the former Python delivers alimony gags, a bit of PC-baiting – and an amusingly grumpy lecture on how nobody knows anythingThe decision to postpone lockdown easing scotched plans to admit a socially distanced…
Continue ReadingThe standup, writer and comedian on the things that make her laugh the mostEddie Murphy doing an impression of Richard Pryor in Raw, telling outrageously accurate jokes about having a poo. Very relatable. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for o…
Continue ReadingTristram Kenton’s photographs have accompanied reviews in the Guardian for more than 30 years. Ahead of a series of themed galleries, we open up his archive with 40 fabulous shots Continue reading…
Continue ReadingWe ask our favourite Australian comics for links that never fail to make them laugh. For this one, it’s mostly displays of hubris, idiocy and misfortuneI hate watching comedy. I know, it’s weird for someone who has performed as a comedian for a decade …
Continue ReadingWe ask our favourite Australian comics for links that never fail to make them laugh. For this one, it’s mostly displays of hubris, idiocy and misfortuneI hate watching comedy. I know, it’s weird for someone who has performed as a comedian for a decade …
Continue ReadingI’ve been doing standup at the fringe almost every year since 2006. And despite the stress, lousy lodging and worse food there’s nothing I’d rather do It’s the last week of July and, like most comedians in the country, in any other year I’d be about to…
Continue ReadingWhen you’ve shared jokes since childhood, you can be brutally honest with each other. Flo & Joan and Ruby Wax’s daughters, Maddy and Marina Bye, on becoming family double acts They’ve been described as “the other popular comedy duo” from TV’s golde…
Continue ReadingAlan Partridge’s Sidekick Simon takes it out on his own hapless wingman – but Enya’s repeated interruptions slow the flowI’ve missed live comedy very much since the closure of theatres. But I haven’t had to miss Tim Key. His shows were a special event …
Continue ReadingThe Irish standup comedian and actor on the things that make him laugh the mostBilly Connolly when I was about 13 or 14. It really was a good night. I’ve seen loads of great acts since but he was the first and, as such, left an amazing impression. Rela…
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