There’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 ReadingAfter the smart-aleck sitcom Community and the outrageous Hangover movies, the rude and raging comedian is returning to standupRage, mania and disinhibition are the common factors in Ken Jeong’s comedy. That’s whether he’s springing naked from the boot…
Continue ReadingThe upfront standup took down Trump with a blistering routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner. But she won’t joke about him againHere are some things the comedian Michelle Wolf won’t do. Wear shorts on stage. “Because I don’t want people to l…
Continue ReadingThe comedian’s life was upended in 2016 when his wife died. He discusses her role in the Golden State Killer case, the ‘shadow slog’ of grief – and the reaction to his remarriageThe sad clown. The chronic depressive comedian. It is one of the greatest …
Continue ReadingAnvil, BasingstokePalin offers up a fascinating potted history of an ill-fated naval journey, then goes on an affable tour through his six-decade careerGeography, history and comedy. Those were Michael Palin’s favourite subjects – broadly defined – at …
Continue ReadingThe American standup, actor and Saturday Night Live cast member on the things that make him laugh the mostThe first time I laughed and couldn’t breathe was Katt Williams’s Pimp Chronicles. Continue reading…
Continue ReadingLoughborough Town HallHe became ‘the most hated comedian in Britain’. Now Walsh is on tour with the most engaging show of his careerThree weeks into Strictly Come Dancing last autumn, Seann Walsh was walking on air. The public loved him; the primetime …
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonBig of voice and wide of smile, the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist fills the room with her singing and mimicryAt points in Jess Robinson’s show, as you’re being pinned to the back wall of the venue by the power of her balladeeri…
Continue ReadingLeicester Square theatre, LondonThe former king of lad comedy moseys through a delightfully meandering set about ageing, libido and ‘the Strictly curse’Frank Skinner is 62, and it’s remarkable he can even make it on stage, he says: “It’s like when you …
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…
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