Preston Park, BrightonLou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O’Doherty’s delightful stream of consciousness the highlightSave for incapacitating injury or actual death, you don’t cancel a gig: that was always…
Continue ReadingPreston Park, BrightonLou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O’Doherty’s delightful stream of consciousness the highlightSave for incapacitating injury or actual death, you don’t cancel a gig: that was always…
Continue ReadingThe actor, comedian, writer and standup on the things that make her laugh the mostMitch Hedberg or Bernie Mac. Neither live, or alive, sadly. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading…
Continue ReadingShe sometimes said she’d rather be a hairdresser but Aherne’s cheeky early appearances in the pubs and clubs of Manchester led her to TV fameIn the early 90s, Manchester’s cultural revolution was in full swing. “Everything was thriving,” remembers acto…
Continue ReadingGrange Farm, HuntingdonWatson and Nabil Abdulrashid were two standups who managed to thrive on a first night where the rain was less forgiving than the hecklersAnother al fresco comedy gala, another downpour. It must have seemed a smashing idea when th…
Continue ReadingThe actor and comedian, otherwise known as Groom of the Stool, on the things that make him laugh the mostI love Hannibal Buress, his show Comedy Camisado is hilarious. I saw him in Edinburgh maybe 10 years ago and have been following him ever since. He…
Continue ReadingWhen Eric Idle decided to turn Monty Python and the Holy Grail into a Broadway stage show in 2005, titled… MORE
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Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe Irish comedian and guests Nish Kumar and Fatiha El-Ghorri lift their crowd’s soggy spirits with some choice gagsAisling Bea is getting soaked; so are the rest of us. Her 4 July open-air gig was meant to be a su…
Continue ReadingThe award-winning comedy duo on the things that make them laugh the mostBen Ashenden John Mulaney did an hour at the Soho Theatre that felt like 30 seconds. A total master of making an audience fall in love. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for…
Continue ReadingThe festival has shrunk because of Covid but there are plenty of shows in person and online this summer – here’s our pick of the first to be announcedSex Education Xplorers (S.E.X.)What did they miss out in your sex ed at school? Mamoru Iriguchi fills …
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