The improv performer and founder member of Austentatious on the things that make him laugh the mostAnything from Saturday Night Live with Kristen Wiig, but specifically the Lawrence Welk Show parody; her gruesome singer with baby hands gets me every ti…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonIn the hilarious persona of a millennial narcissist blessing the audience with her precious jokes, Berlant’s impro-comedy is blazingly in-the-moment‘This was incredible – to quote you.” Kate Berlant is reflecting on her performance,…
Continue ReadingTV’s most relatable comic – with TV’s most distinctive teeth – talks about sleeping in toilets, being ‘chavvy’ and how Twitter trolls drove him to therapy‘Have you ever been to Disneyland?” Rob Beckett asks, buzzing with the energy of a small child as …
Continue ReadingThe standup, writer and actor on the things that make her laugh the mostHarriet Dyer. She is an atom bomb of explosive comedy eccentricity. Continue reading…
Continue ReadingState-of-the-art West End theatre opens its doors with a season including plays by Cormac McCarthy and Lucy PrebbleA “novel in dramatic form” by Cormac McCarthy, a revival of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect and dramas directed by Kathy Burke and Yaël Farber …
Continue ReadingShe’s had small roles in hipster thriller Search Party and the new Tarantino movie but comedy is Berlant’s first love. Why? Because it’s ‘a place of terror’To fellow comic Bo Burnham, she is the “most influential/imitated comedian of a generation … a m…
Continue ReadingNottingham PlayhouseFifteen years since he last performed standup, Elton’s new show humbly embraces the madness of the modern world ‘It hasn’t been easy,” says Ben Elton, “trying to decide what to talk about.” You don’t say. His new standup show is stu…
Continue ReadingThe former flight attendant started standup as a dare – now he’s a sellout star. But how will his Nordic innuendos work in England?This winter, comedian Ari Eldjárn will play to thousands of people in his home town of Reykjavík. Seventeen shows in nine…
Continue ReadingCliffs Pavilion, SouthendRob Brydon, Lee Mack and David Mitchell take the off-the-cuff gags of Would I Lie to You? on the road for a nonessential but entertaining night of comedyThe panel show offers a TV lifeline to scores of comedians, but it has nev…
Continue ReadingBrighton DomeWunderbar is packed with surreal sugar – delightful animals and gobbledegook – but the pill of messianic politics is hard to swallow‘This is my last tour before politics,” says Eddie Izzard, who plans to stand as an MP at the next election…
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