Neil Hamburger is a loser, insulting B-list celebs for our amusement, yet he can be less offensive – and funnier – than certain comedy superstars‘What disease did legendary ice-cream makers Ben & Jerry give to all the prostitutes in their home town…
Continue ReadingThere’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the world’s biggest arts festivalCrocodile Fever Traverse Playwright Megh…
Continue ReadingIn the run-up to the Edinburgh festival we’ll be picking highlights from the programme. Here’s a dozen for starters, including Eddie Izzard and a ukulele comedyAssembly George Square StudiosEddie Izzard was born 150 years – to the day – after Charles D…
Continue ReadingThey were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind HotterThe pants arrived today. They’re bright pink with the word HOTTER emblazoned on them in red letters. “W…
Continue ReadingThey were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind HotterThe pants arrived today. They’re bright pink with the word HOTTER emblazoned on them in red letters. “W…
Continue ReadingEveryman, CheltenhamShakespeare, wizards and panto dames all play their part in an evening of autobiography that is a love letter to theatreScratch a great actor and you often find a born comic underneath and, watching Ian McKellen’s itinerant solo sho…
Continue ReadingThe actor-writer will perform her comic monologue, on which the hit TV show was based, for 30 performances this summer It is the filthy, fiercely funny monologue that received mixed reviews when it was staged in a tiny venue at the Edinburgh festival i…
Continue ReadingDoctors made me feel silly and men offered to fix my vaginal woe. But speaking up about sexual dysfunction has given me back the voice I had lost in bedIt’s time for me to stop lying about sex. To my ex-partners, I’m sorry I wasn’t as honest with you a…
Continue ReadingDoctors made me feel silly and men offered to fix my vaginal woe. But speaking up about sexual dysfunction has given me back the voice I had lost in bedIt’s time for me to stop lying about sex. To my ex-partners, I’m sorry I wasn’t as honest with you a…
Continue ReadingNew Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area’s rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80sA tiny new state-of-the-art theatre seeking to capture the “rebellious” spirit of London’s Soho is to open in the building where …
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