The comedian, 33, talks about funny anger, homophobic hecklers, selling soffits and his trouble with Heinz pasta shapesAnger is a funny emotion. That’s how I accidentally got my consumer show. In my stand-up set, I’d read out my complaint letters. My g…
Continue ReadingThe trailblazing actor and comedian on asserting her bisexuality in the 80s, misogynistic male comics – and befriending MadonnaDuring nearly five decades in showbiz, Sandra Bernhard has racked up title after title – comedian, actor, singer, author, rad…
Continue ReadingThe trailblazing actor and comedian on asserting her bisexuality in the 80s, misogynistic male comics – and befriending MadonnaDuring nearly five decades in showbiz, Sandra Bernhard has racked up title after title – comedian, actor, singer, author, rad…
Continue ReadingThe trailblazing actor and comedian on asserting her bisexuality in the 80s, misogynistic male comics – and befriending MadonnaDuring nearly five decades in showbiz, Sandra Bernhard has racked up title after title – comedian, actor, singer, author, rad…
Continue ReadingFrom foul-mouthed ad spoofs to reading Fifty Shades to his gran, the ‘front-facing camera comic’ has become a legend in his own living roomEven if he wanted to, Alistair Green can’t redecorate his living room. The plain white walls that backdrop the co…
Continue ReadingFrom foul-mouthed ad spoofs to reading Fifty Shades to his gran, the ‘front-facing camera comic’ has become a legend in his own living roomEven if he wanted to, Alistair Green can’t redecorate his living room. The plain white walls that backdrop the co…
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 ReadingJoyce Grenfell inspired her, she wrote her own musical at school and a fringe theatre show with Julie Walters paved the way to TV fame. As Victoria Wood’s Talent returns, we revisit her early stage yearsAnyone who has watched her in Dinnerladies or rec…
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…
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