Comedian says response to news he is to embark on first live tour for 12 years has been ‘proper overwhelming’ The comedian Peter Kay has announced he will perform his new standup show in year-long monthly residency at London’s 02 arena.Speaking in a r…
Continue ReadingComedian says response to news he is to embark on first live tour for 12 years has been ‘proper overwhelming’ The comedian Peter Kay has announced he will perform his new standup show in year-long monthly residency at London’s 02 arena.Speaking in a r…
Continue ReadingJason Manford, Keala Settle, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Chelsea Hall get set for the glitter and gags of festive seasonPanto was my first experience of going to the theatre. At school in south Manchester, there were free tickets for kids from underprivil…
Continue ReadingComedian will kick off with shows in Manchester later this year as tickets go on sale on 12 NovemberPeter Kay has announced his first live standup tour in 12 years.Tickets will go on sale for the UK gigs at 10am on 12 November from his website, followi…
Continue ReadingThe Bake Off regular on the complexity of grief, the importance of dressing well and why he’s always fancied himself as a vicarComedian Tom Allen, 39, grew up in Bromley and trained with the National Youth theatre. He started standup aged 22, winning S…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonLyons raises her personal demons so she can publicly refuse to play by their rules in this complex comedy-horror crossoverThe eye-popping final sequence of Elf Lyons’s Raven unfolds to Rage Against the Machine’s cacophonous Killing …
Continue ReadingThe standup and author on American-British rants, why Saturday Night Live wouldn’t work in the UK and the joy of offending Winnebago ownersYour current show is called Shot from Cannons. What is it about?The first half is grampa throwing slippers at the…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve‘Just a very long-winded way of shouting boo.” So says the hero of Daniel Kitson’s…
Continue ReadingShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThe comedian is as spontaneous as ever in this unadorned show featuring a one-ghost campaign to rewild the sanitised customs of All Hallows Eve‘Just a very long-winded way of shouting boo.” So says the hero of Daniel Kitson’s…
Continue ReadingHe breezed into the Edinburgh fringe late with just half a show – and won the ‘Oscar of comedy’. In his first ever face-to-face interview, the eccentric Aussie standup reveals what’s next (‘Something’)Here’s how the Edinburgh fringe usually figures in …
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