SNL is a US comedy institution – can a British version rise to the challenge of finding the funny in our comparatively beige politicians every week? We speak to the team hand-picked to do just thatIt is the calm before the storm. The storm being the im…
Continue ReadingThe Australian comedian on why they became a sock puppet, a message in a potato, and meeting Anna KendrickYou recently released a free standup special, Woof!, where you are a sock puppet. I guess the question would be – why?I just got sick of being see…
Continue ReadingThe comic on cleaning up her language for family audiences, writing her debut novel and praying before taking the stageHow did you get into comedy?After my second divorce, I was online looking for a walking group in my local area and I got a pop-up tha…
Continue ReadingThey wowed the Edinburgh fringe with whip-smart sketches about Nasa engineers and what their audience were thinking. Now the slacker troupe are back on stage – but a long way from TV screensWhen a “New York cult favourite sketch group” (as per the blur…
Continue ReadingClapham Grand, LondonIn his touring show, Acaster introduces a new alter ego, adding even more layers to his material, along with some trenchant political gags‘I’m the UK’s No 1 James Acaster tribute act!” says Craig Simons, bounding on stage in sparkl…
Continue ReadingÒran Mór, GlasgowCovering friendship, addiction and death, this dark comedy from the team behind Dancing Shoes celebrates one man’s life and his passion for filmThe title is ironic. There is nothing legendary about Davie McKenzie. Scarcely out of priso…
Continue ReadingWe want to hear about the funniest, strangest or most disastrous moments in 40 years of MICF history – whether you are a punter, crew member or comedianThe Melbourne international comedy festival takes over the city from 25 March: the world’s largest d…
Continue ReadingTed Lasso star and Celebrity Traitors finalist will take the helm at Royal Albert Hall ceremony in London next month as special award recipients are announcedNick Mohammed has been named as the host for this year’s Olivier awards, which take place at t…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonFearlessly provocative and covered in gunk, Garland delivers a wild and elusive show about queerness and carnality‘It’s divisive.” Well, you’d think so, a “kink performance art” clown show with nudity, bodily fluids, worms and, er, …
Continue ReadingThe composer’s new album features tracks from Hamlet and Everyman, while The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa has a free week on YouTubeDom Coyote says “electronics, acoustics, voice and story collide” in his compositions for theatre. His n…
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