Watch Jack Black perform “Peaches” live at the Hollywood Bowl

Exclusive: Peaches has become the unexpected hit song from Super Mario Bros Movie. As sung by Jack Black, the song… MORE
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‘I like to slag off the headliner’: what is it like to do standup at a music festival?

Comedians Sophie Duker and Jacob Hawley discuss how to draw revellers away from pop stars while Glastonbury’s Charlotte Lang explains what it takes to win over the cabaret tentYou’re in a massive tent. People are walking in and out, chatting, spilling …

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Watch Tenacious D cover “Wicked Games”

Tenacious D are back with another cover! This time, Jack Black and Kyle Gass are taking in Chris Issak’s Wicked… MORE
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Rachel Parris: ‘Standup would have terrified me – the piano was a good comfort blanket’

The comic on hecklers, pre-show rituals, Jane Austen puns and her childhood heroesWhy did you get into musical comedy?I did musical comedy first because that was all I could do! I’d written and performed songs since I was young, so it was the most obvi…

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Tim Heidecker: ‘I’m trying to be an antidote to the toxic side of comedy’

Best known for his inventive work with Tim and Eric, the absurdist comic talks about playing it straight as a ‘legit’ singer-songwriter, and his newest creation: a ‘belligerent and terrible’ standup comedianGrowing up, Tim Heidecker didn’t know who he …

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Tim Heidecker: ‘I’m trying to be an antidote to the toxic side of comedy’

Best known for his inventive work with Tim and Eric, the absurdist comic talks about playing it straight as a ‘legit’ singer-songwriter, and his newest creation: a ‘belligerent and terrible’ standup comedianGrowing up, Tim Heidecker didn’t know who he …

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Judd Apatow covers “Spinning Wheel” with Dave Grohl on drums

For the past, Dave Grohl teams up with Greg Kurstin and a different Jewish artist to countdown the eight nights… MORE
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Jack and the Beanstalk review – no expense spared for giant all-star entertainment

London PalladiumDawn French, Julian Clary and Alexandra Burke join an animatronic giant with a vast beanstalk in an innuendo-heavy, story-light showPantos are usually cheap and cheerful, so it’s disorientating to see millions of pounds (I’m guessing) t…

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Jazz Emu review – a joyful hour with a delusional musical star

Soho theatre, LondonWith his Scandi-nowhere accent and cool-dude aspirations, Archie Henderson’s comic character is improbable, clever and very funny‘I’m in control,” sings Jazz Emu, while the routine (synth noodling, cool funk stylings, malfunctioning…

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Wheeler Walker Jr. may or may not be releasing a documentary about retiring

Comedian Ben Hoffman created a monster when he debuted his Wheeler Walker Jr. character a decade ago. A fictional anti-country… MORE
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