Judith Lucy vs Men: cheer yourself with a short fix of standup – video

With comedy festivals cancelled around the world, Amazon Prime is releasing 10 original Australian standup specials to tide you over. Filmed at Melbourne’s Malthouse theatre during the Before Times, the biweekly series has featured names like Celia Pac…

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Roisin Conaty: ‘Standup is a confidence game. You sell the sizzle, not the sausage’

The comedian, 41, on getting women’s sitcoms on to TV, overordering in restaurants and preferring decent to shiny peopleI’m from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland. It was like t…

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Maria Bamford: Weakness is the Brand – a comic totally in command

Available onlineTherapy, foreplay and the nature of standup all fall into the crosshairs of a scattergun show that never fails to find its targetWho better to turn to at a time of social isolation than an act whose best-known special was staged for an …

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Dilruk Jayasinha’s Bundle of Joy: cheer yourself with a short fix of standup – video

With comedy festivals cancelled around the world, Amazon Prime is releasing 10 original Australian specials to tide you over. Filmed at Melbourne’s Malthouse theatres, the series will feature names including Celia Pacquola, Tom Gleeson, Anne Edmonds, T…

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Ross Noble’s Lockdown Lounge: a welcome escape into nonsense

Available onlineThe comedian’s daily interactive webcast is a load of shambolic, lo-fi silliness – which is just what we need right nowHottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch onlineThe best arts and entertainment during self-isola…

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‘We laugh at dark things’: inside Glasgow’s upfront comedy scene

Wit and four-letter artistry have made Glasgow a comedy stronghold – and with the clubs shut, the laughs are going onlineGlaswegian comedians haven’t always been complimentary about their home city. “The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a n…

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‘We laugh at dark things’: inside Glasgow’s upfront comedy scene

Wit and four-letter artistry have made Glasgow a comedy stronghold – and with the clubs shut, the laughs are going onlineGlaswegian comedians haven’t always been complimentary about their home city. “The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a n…

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Suzi Ruffell: ‘I dreamed Mel C needed me to change the oil in her car’

The comedian, actor and writer on the things that make her laugh the mostWanda Sykes. Her new Netflix special is brilliant. Continue reading…

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Alice Fraser’s Savage: cheer yourself with a short fix of standup – video

With comedy festivals cancelled around the world, Amazon Prime is releasing 10 original Australian standup specials to tide you over. Filmed at Melbourne’s Malthouse theatre during the Before Times, and landing on Prime twice a week, the series feature…

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Comedian formerly known as Hugo Boss changes name back to Joe Lycett

The TV host, who changed his name to protest the fashion brand’s heavy-handed legal action, has decided to ‘go back to the Lycetts’The comedian formerly named Joe Lycett is now once more named Joe Lycett as his brief spell as Hugo Boss has come to an e…

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