Available onlinePart behind-the-scenes doc and part reiteration of Gethard’s faith in comedy, this is a vivid portrait of a peripatetic lifeChris Gethard’s new film opens with the 40-year-old performing at 9am to a pancake-guzzling audience in Buffalo,…
Continue ReadingNetflix With electro-pop social commentary, bleak humour and sock-puppet debates, the comic’s lockdown creation is astonishingWell, now we know what Bo Burnham did with his lockdown. Inside is his new Netflix special, created alone in his LA home throu…
Continue ReadingThe Australian actor, composer and comedian on the things that make her laugh the mostJohn Mulaney is a master of his craft and I’ll always be a sucker for bits that include impressions of an old man in a raincoat and rain hat yelling about ducks. Rela…
Continue ReadingThe Australian actor, composer and comedian on the things that make her laugh the mostJohn Mulaney is a master of his craft and I’ll always be a sucker for bits that include impressions of an old man in a raincoat and rain hat yelling about ducks. Rela…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, London Newman dissects ideas with intelligence, running around the houses and back, on themes from politics and humanity to parenthoodA masked audience is a novelty at his gigs, Rob Newman tells us. A sparsely populated auditorium: not so…
Continue ReadingSteve Coogan’s blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UKAlan Partridge is to embark on a UK arena tour to heal a “scissored isle” that is less united than…
Continue ReadingSteve Coogan’s blazered broadcaster promises to bring a touch of TV evangelism and hatred of speed bumps on tour next year in venues across post-Brexit UKAlan Partridge is to embark on a UK arena tour to heal a “scissored isle” that is less united than…
Continue ReadingFrom postponed Meltdowns to melted icecream, shutting down an 11-acre multi-venue site has made for a challenging 15 months at London’s Southbank Centre. But, as it reopens, there have been gains as well as lossesPerhaps not right at the top of the lis…
Continue ReadingDo you want your sightlines unobstructed by big hair, or is avoiding the eyeline of savage comics your priority? Here’s the perfect spot to enjoy the show In the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been bur…
Continue ReadingThe latest in our series where we turn the tables on the torturers. Under the spotlight this time is Dave Gorman, AKA Bluth and DjangoA setter who first appeared during the pandemic is Bluth, whose sometimes topical clues have appeared in our roundups….
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