“Weird Al” is in the new Weezer video, which is a cover of Toto and a remake of Weezer

It’s a pop culture meta-inception… Just follow us for a second here, a few months back Weezer released a cover… MORE

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Tenacious D announce “Post-Apocalypto” animated web series and new album

Tenacious D has been rumbling about a new album for a while and this week they made it official, Jack… MORE

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Tenacious D announce “Post-Apocalypto” animated web series and new album

Tenacious D has been rumbling about a new album for a while and this week they made it official, Jack… MORE

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Episode #223: Jonathan Katz

Jonathan Katz won Comedy Central’s first-ever Emmy Award for his critically-acclaimed animated series, Dr. Katz, in the mid-1990s. He followed that up with a Peabody Award in 1998. Twenty years later, he’s entertaining us anew with therapy sessions with his famous funny friends in a brand-new Dr. Katz: The Audiobook, for Amazon’s Audible. But before […]

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The Aquabats! are back

“There’s some really lame stuff going on. And we need people to take themselves less seriously.” The Aquabats! are all… MORE

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Love Songs review – comedy in the key of life

Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh
Endearing storytelling carries the day in Alissa Anne Jeun Yi’s show, combining standup, poetry and rap

Alissa Anne Jeun Yi’s flyers call her Edinburgh fringe debut a “one-woman spoken-word and rap show” but Love Songs, tucked into the corner of Underbelly at Cowgate, comes across more like standup comedy. For most of the show, Jeun Yi bounces with endearing energy from anecdote to anecdote, all loosely connected to the theme of love.

With only occasional music and props kept to a minimum, it’s the storytelling that carries the piece. We hear how her parents met at university, the love lessons she learned watching soap operas in Hong Kong, and how her mixed-race Chinese and white heritage plays into the way her womanhood is viewed by the world. The sharp observations inspire genuine laughs. One, about fancying someone with a minimal triangle wrist tattoo – “it says so much whilst saying so little!” – is a reminder millennials can really nail our own self-ridicule.

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Punchlines, power plays and Pussy Riot: Edinburgh fringe – in pictures

The original jukebox musical, a survey of the world’s ills, and defying the Russian authorities to appear at Edinburgh. All photography by Murdo MacLeod

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50 shows to see at the Edinburgh fringe 2018

Superstar standups, daring dance, Brexit cabaret and a Bon Jovi musical … Dive into our guide to some of the shows at the world’s biggest arts festival

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If you plan to see The Offspring / 311 tour this summer, the Super Troopers might have different plans

So, if you’re looking for a 90s nostalgia trio, the bands 311 and The Offspring are hitting the road for… MORE

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Jack Black shows up in the new Gorillaz video

Jack Black hasn’t been up to too much lately. Why do we know this, because he’s spending his time on… MORE

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