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Sara Pascoe: ‘My greatest fear? Animals choking on plastic I’ve thrown away’

July 28, 2018TheGuardian

The comedian on intimacy, teenage shoplifting and why she hates music

Pascoe, 37, appeared in the BBC series Twenty Twelve and WIA. In 2016, she wrote Animal: The Autobiography Of A Female Body and toured her Animal show. She is now writing her second book, Sex Power Money. From 16 September, she will tour the UK with her hit show LadsLadsLads, inspired by her breakup with fellow comedian John Robins.

What is your earliest memory?
Being in a pram and having a tantrum. I was being pushed and the trees above me were all blurry because of the tears in my eyes.

This week on TV: Bruce Willis gets his ass roasted

July 23, 2018TheLaughButton

IT’s a big week for comedy, why? Because Comedy Central is set to roast its next victim subject and that… MORE

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This week on TV: we go inside Robin Williams’ mind

July 16, 2018TheLaughButton

This week, HBO will release Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, the documentary about the life of the late comedian… MORE

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Conan O’Brien helps his assistant buy a new car

July 13, 2018TheLaughButton

Conan O’Brien is a good dude and he’d like to help those close to him. Queue up Sona, his longtime… MORE

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Dylan Moran: ‘Britain is sending itself to its room and not coming down’

July 13, 2018TheGuardian

The comedian’s new show questions how to cope with the relentlessness of today’s politics. He discusses the ‘cult’ of Catholicism, his love of poetry and giving up his vices

“I’ve been doing this for a quarter of a century,” points out Dylan Moran. “I’m probably going to know about as much as I’m ever going to know on a working level. There’s a liberty in that.” It’s hard to believe so much time has passed since the Irish comic first shuffled on to the stage, cigarette and drink at the ready, and appeared not to know what on earth he was doing there. In 1996, aged 24, he became the youngest person to win the Perrier comedy award at the Edinburgh festival, and embarked on his first UK tour the year after. TV and film opportunities followed, often playing various iterations of his rumpled, grumpy stage persona: in the 1998 sitcom How Do You Want Me?, with the late Charlotte Coleman; a cameo as a shameless shoplifter in the Richard Curtis film Notting Hill; roles in the Simon Pegg vehicles Shaun of the Dead and Run, Fatboy, Run. More recently he’s appeared in the 2014 Irish film Calvary and the TV sitcom Uncle.

But the show he remains best known for is cult favourite Black Books, co-created with Graham Linehan, in which Moran took centre stage as the operatically bad-tempered secondhand bookshop owner Bernard Black, a petty tyrant to his sweet-natured assistant, played by Bill Bailey. An extended love letter to booze, fags, dusty bookshops and stubborn individuality, it ran for three series, from 2000 to 2004, and still inspires enormous affection.

Standup was like throwing my cards in the air – or trying on a suit that fits and it’s just perfect

This country has two zombie political parties having a pretend show of political debate that will never lead to anything

Here’s a first look at Bobcat Goldthwait’s new anthology series, “Misfits & Monsters”

July 2, 2018TheLaughButton

For a long time the folks at truTV have been working with Bobcat Goldthwait to bring a new TV series… MORE

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This week on TV: The Comedy Lineup helps us celebrate our independence

July 2, 2018TheLaughButton

This week is a mixed bag because the 4th of July is smack dab in the middle of the week.… MORE

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James Acaster: ‘Brexiteers get amazingly angry about my tea joke’

July 1, 2018TheGuardian

The standup on his Netflix show, corduroy trousers, his dad’s backhanded compliments and the brilliance of female comics

Kettering-born James Acaster, 33, a drummer turned comic, has been nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award a record five consecutive times. His current Netflix mini-series, Repertoire, comprises four hour-long standup performances. He is appearing at the Latitude festival, Suffolk, on 14 July.

You’re the first British comic to shoot more than one Netflix special. What’s your series about?
It’s four standup shows themed around the justice system: one about being an undercover cop, one about jury service, one about committing a crime and one about witness protection. There’s also a hidden narrative running underneath that becomes apparent as they progress.

Corduroy hits the sweet spot between jeans and slacks. They’re a trouser middle man