Sketch comedy double act Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill on the things that make them laugh the mostChris Cantrill: Cancel all your plans and seek out the undisputed queen of character comedy, Anna Mann. Continue reading…
Continue ReadingThe standup, writer and social media master on the things that make him laugh the mostAlan Partridge’s Nomad is perfect. Either that or Reach for the Ground, Jeffrey Bernard’s collected articles about pissing his life away. The title alone is worth buy…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonWith repurposed classics such as 12 Gays of Christmas, this festive satirical show delivers big-hitting performances and cunning lyricsIf you should find yourself at a carol concert this festive period after seeing Sex Shells’ XXXma…
Continue ReadingEntertainment and abusive despair … the comedian and columnist dissects his own work in this merciless look at the past three yearsThe American magazine writer EB White once declared: “Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the…
Continue ReadingA double dose of Stewart Lee, Hannah Gadsby’s follow-up to Nanette and London Hughes’ uproarious blue humour tickled the comedy circuit this yearMore on the best culture of 2019 Continue reading…
Continue ReadingThe standup and writer on the things that make her laugh the mostLou Sanders is the best. Always funny – in front of 12 people in the basement of a pub or running off stage at the Apollo to get her Vote Labia bags to show an audience of 3,000. Continue…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity Hilarious, sincere, sexy and brutal, Fitter is a deep-throated examination into modern masculini…
Continue ReadingTV channel Gold announces the winners in a national competition for topical festive gags – can you do any better?What do Donald Trump, Santa and Olivia Colman have in common? No, it’s not a joke – but all three feature in the winning gags of a national…
Continue ReadingWarwick Arts Centre A cool crowd warms to the standup’s animated stories, daft moves and disarming candour in Dance Like Everyone’s WatchingA standup needs several qualities in their locker, among which tenacity may be the least heralded. It’s a specta…
Continue ReadingBloomsbury theatre, LondonDoc-turned-comic Kay recalls Christmases spent in hospitals – with anecdotes about peanut butter, ill-used confectionery and a blast of Spandau Ballet‘Christmas comes but once a year – and if you work in the NHS, you’ll say: t…
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