The big-collared clown’s new touring show is a galloping riot of idiocy aimed at children – and they love it. Whether they learn anything is another matterComedy for kids is on the rise. Phil Ellis’s knockabout Funz and Gamez won an Edinburgh Comedy aw…
Continue ReadingThe American standup, writer and 2017 Edinburgh best newcomer winner on the things that make her laugh the mostBrent Weinbach. I saw him in Los Angeles at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2010 when I was doing a summer internship. He’s so absurd and fea…
Continue ReadingThe American standup, writer and 2017 Edinburgh best newcomer winner on the things that make her laugh the mostBrent Weinbach. I saw him in Los Angeles at the Upright Citizens Brigade in 2010 when I was doing a summer internship. He’s so absurd and fea…
Continue ReadingSuperstar comic will give first UK performances in seven years at the Hammersmith ApolloJerry Seinfeld is to give four rare performances in London when he brings his standup show to the Hammersmith Apollo in summer 2019.Seinfeld will perform two shows …
Continue ReadingThe standup continued his contentious comeback in Paris – presenting a dilemma for the woman asked to gig with himBeing asked to open for a famous comic is every struggling standup comedian’s dream. A chance to be seen, to get a foot in the door. But w…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonIn her new show, Peachy, Pattison perkily traces her efforts to be young, free and single while coping with mental fragilityLauren Pattison’s first show was about a breakup. Her second – she tells us – celebrates the happiness she’s…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonIn her new show, Peachy, Pattison perkily traces her efforts to be young, free and single while coping with mental fragilityLauren Pattison’s first show was about a breakup. Her second – she tells us – celebrates the happiness she’s…
Continue ReadingAfter a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds ‘frightening and debilitating’ now, though, is leaving the EUMark Gatiss is recalling an early memory, rocking back and f…
Continue ReadingAfter a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds ‘frightening and debilitating’ now, though, is leaving the EUMark Gatiss is recalling an early memory, rocking back and f…
Continue ReadingAfter a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds ‘frightening and debilitating’ now, though, is leaving the EUMark Gatiss is recalling an early memory, rocking back and f…
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