Why did the Taxi and Saturday Night Live star travel across America paying women $1,000 to wrestle him? Could transcendental meditation have had anything to do with it?By the time he died in 1984 of lung cancer aged only 35, Andy Kaufman had wrestled m…
Continue ReadingThere’s always a lot of harrumphing about loud eating, talking, arriving late, sex and even throwing things at the stage… But isn’t a bawdy audience is what a live performance is all about?I hadn’t realised what a very, very good girl I was until I cau…
Continue ReadingAssembly George Square, EdinburghGrace stars as the Black Widow actor to poke fun at cross-racial casting, in an intricate takedown of fixed identity that will leave your mind buzzing‘An actor can do anything they want – as long as they mean well when …
Continue ReadingAssembly George Square, EdinburghGrace stars as the Black Widow actor to poke fun at cross-racial casting, in an intricate takedown of fixed identity that will leave your mind buzzing‘An actor can do anything they want – as long as they mean well when …
Continue ReadingThe controversial standup brings big cartoonish energy to his first tour since 2018, delivering a set of self-mockery and dismay at bizarre behaviourKevin Hart is back in the UK on his first tour since Irresponsible (2018) which, with zillions of ticke…
Continue ReadingThe Australian actor and comedian has died aged 89. Here are some of the best pictures from his long careerBarry Humphries, Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna Everage, dies aged 89Tributes pour in for ‘one of a kind’ star – latest updatesBarr…
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Continue ReadingThe actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing ‘serious’ drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don’t see her on TV so much any more“I hope they don’t want me to look wacky,” frets…
Continue ReadingThe actor looks back over a four-decade career balancing ‘serious’ drama and improv comedy, describes the making of her wholly improvised new film, and explains why we don’t see her on TV so much any more“I hope they don’t want me to look wacky,” frets…
Continue ReadingUplifting documentary allows its funny, flawed and likable subject to tell the poignant story of how she came to realise who she wasIn 2016, the comedian Julia Scotti auditioned for America’s Got Talent and brought the house down. Once the applause had…
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