Backstage With Katherine Ryan – the secrets of standups revealed, kind of

A series that promises to expose the offstage antics of comics including Seann Walsh and Jimmy Carr gets off to a slick and intriguing startIs there anything connected to comedians that TV viewers wouldn’t watch these days? They go on holiday: we’ll wa…

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‘Our ears were bleeding!’ – Harry Hill on making his Tony Blair opera

Saddam gets a Groucho Marx makeover, Gordon Brown sings about macroeconomics – and Cherie is part Lily Savage, part Lili Marleen. The big-collared comic reveals all about Tony!It’s a Tuesday morning and Harry Hill and Steve Brown are discussing their u…

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Chris Redd: Why Am I Like This? review – Saturday Night Live star’s random gags

Soho theatre, LondonThe SNL cast member has some impressive off-the-cuff riffs with the audience but never crafts an answer to his own questionIf you saw Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Redd on a mixed bill at a comedy club, he’d be the highlight…

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Oliver Twist: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

This comedian has gone through the entire internet to find the funniest videos, including a Bo Burnham song, Issa Rae’s web series and Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton JohnGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastOlå, Oli h…

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Oliver Twist: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

This comedian has gone through the entire internet to find the funniest videos, including a Bo Burnham song, Issa Rae’s web series and Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton JohnGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastOlå, Oli h…

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Alan Partridge: Stratagem review – two hours of tremendous silliness

Edinburgh PlayhouseIn a joyful return to the stage, Steve Coogan’s deathless alter ego delivers a motivational lecture he keeps on derailingThe last time Alan Partridge graced the nation’s stages, he was trying his hand as a life coach, in Steve Coogan…

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‘Everyone has one cancellation in them’: standup Joanne McNally on her unfiltered comedy

From career doldrums to fending off pantless stage invaders, the straight-talking Irish comic’s journey to becoming a must-see act has been a wild rideAt a recent gig, an audience member was so taken with Joanne McNally’s standup that she tried to get …

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Sophie Duker: ‘You have to laugh at yourself – you’ll never be in the right for long’

Having defeated impostor syndrome, the standup is taking on Taskmaster and returning to the Edinburgh fringe with ‘sexy and chaotic’ new show HagSophie Duker’s just shared a Taskmaster secret: every contestant has to have two identical versions of thei…

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Sophie Duker: ‘You have to laugh at yourself – you’ll never be in the right for long’

Having defeated impostor syndrome, the standup is taking on Taskmaster and returning to the Edinburgh fringe with ‘sexy and chaotic’ new show HagSophie Duker’s just shared a Taskmaster secret: every contestant has to have two identical versions of thei…

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Gilbert Gottfried, comedian and actor, dies aged 67

The standup comic, also known for voicing Iago in Disney’s animated Aladdin, has died after a long illnessComedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried has died at the age of 67.His family announced his death after a long illness via his Twitter page. Gottfried…

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