The standup comedian and CBeebies star on the things that make him laugh the mostI am blind, and I once walked into the undertaker’s believing it to be the barber’s next door. The undertaker asked if he could help me, and I asked him if he had many wai…
Continue ReadingThe Grand, Clapham, London The Inbetweeners’ actor gears up for her 30s with a look back at her regrets and a plea for us all to be nicer to one anotherEmily Atack isn’t your regular standup. Despite selling out a cross-country tour, this is the first …
Continue ReadingThe Stay Awake party, the polling station in an area populated by lions … on the eve of results in India, Anuvab Pal reveals how the biggest election in history – with 900 million voters – is comedy goldI sit down to read the Indian Express and come ac…
Continue ReadingAlexandra Palace theatre, LondonIn Facing the Beast, the US comic offers an erratic hour of uncharitable observations and forced ‘edge’As he mentions several times during his latest show, Facing the Beast, US standup Reginald D Hunter is struggling to …
Continue ReadingAssembly Hall theatre, Tunbridge WellsThere may be a weary air to some of the obligatory scripted smut, but Clary’s affectionate put-downs remain acutely calibrated A week shy of his 60th birthday, Julian Clary opens his new show, Born to Mince, with a…
Continue ReadingThe standup comedian and Leicester Mercury award winner on the things that make him laugh the mostI’m a big fan of Key & Peele. The first sketch of theirs I saw was the Substitute Teacher and I still love that. Continue reading…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonForthright and talented, Night doesn’t shirk the issues, from porn to social media, and he has the gags to bootToday’s twentysomethings get a fair amount of flak for being righteous and moralistic, as if, given the world they’ve inh…
Continue ReadingThey were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind HotterThe pants arrived today. They’re bright pink with the word HOTTER emblazoned on them in red letters. “W…
Continue ReadingThey were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind HotterThe pants arrived today. They’re bright pink with the word HOTTER emblazoned on them in red letters. “W…
Continue ReadingThe performer – who died this week – found fame as a musician and an impressionist, but could never escape a notorious Sun front pageThe career of the comedian and singer Freddie Starr, who has died aged 76, was defined less by any particular performan…
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