The Yorkshire-born standups’s surreal take on a working men’s club has bagged him comedy awards and a BBC radio pilot. But even as he dreams of a Mrs Merton-style talkshow, he’s still insistent on keeping things surrealThe last time I saw Frankie Monro…
Continue ReadingA second Donald Trump presidency may be darker than the first, but his victory has unleashed the creative energies of satirists and standups “When Trump first won, there was almost a novelty to having a character such as him in a position of such vast …
Continue ReadingThe standup comedian on growing up in Borneo and Bath, living like Batman at Cambridge, and his lifelong fascination with wrestlingBorn in Stoke-on-Trent in 1990, Phil Wang is a comedian, actor and writer. He spent most of his childhood in Malaysia wit…
Continue ReadingScottish comedian and actor whose sweary voiceovers to Nicola Sturgeon’s briefings during Covid were a viral sensationJaney Godley, the Scottish comedian, actor and writer, who has died of cancer aged 63, performed to sell-out crowds across&n…
Continue ReadingThe candid Scottish standup, who has died aged 63, is remembered for her love and laughter by her fellow Glaswegian comic‘Legend” gets bandied around a lot these days. But I said goodbye to a legend this week. It wasn’t a surprise; we all knew it was c…
Continue ReadingThe Glaswegian comedian who grew up in poverty and married a gangster always put her life experience at the heart of her workNobody did comedy quite like Janey Godley. This wasn’t just a matter of her background, which in turn became the currency of he…
Continue ReadingGodley, whose comedy drew upon her Glasgow upbringing, died ‘surrounded by her loved ones’, her management saysJaney Godley: a remarkable comic who built a career on her own termsJaney Godley, the Scottish comedian and author whose quick wit led her to…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonPoking fun at Indian politicians present and past, and delighting in the UK’s decline, the low-key comic delivers some bulletproof materialAnirban Dasgupta has been a standup for 10 years – almost as long as that artform has been bo…
Continue ReadingThe comedian planned to tell the Beatle ‘something eloquent’ backstage – but wound up completely thrownGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIf you could change the size of any animal to keep as a pet, what would it be?A tiny elephant, so tiny you…
Continue ReadingAlbanese was ‘very gracious’, Bob Hawke invited them to dinner and Tony Burke goes every year. Before their final shows, the minds behind the satire reflect on a quarter century of politics and beltersGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s tim…
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