The standup comedian and Leicester Mercury award winner on the things that make him laugh the mostI’m a big fan of Key & Peele. The first sketch of theirs I saw was the Substitute Teacher and I still love that. Continue reading…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonForthright and talented, Night doesn’t shirk the issues, from porn to social media, and he has the gags to bootToday’s twentysomethings get a fair amount of flak for being righteous and moralistic, as if, given the world they’ve inh…
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 ReadingThe performer – who died this week – found fame as a musician and an impressionist, but could never escape a notorious Sun front pageThe career of the comedian and singer Freddie Starr, who has died aged 76, was defined less by any particular performan…
Continue ReadingThe standup, actor and writer on the things that make her laugh the mostI’ve come to think of my existence as BC and AD in terms of when I saw Kate Berlant’s standup for the first time. Continue reading…
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 death of the SNL star 30 years ago robbed the industry of one its finest voices – but not before she had blazed a trail for women such as Tina Fey to followThere is no shortage of excellent critical writing about the US comedy scene in the 80s, and…
Continue ReadingTyne theatre, NewcastleThe broadcaster and writer’s second live show is a warm storm of rollicking tales about musicians and his familyYou could ask the question of any comedy show: how much is truth and how much is performative topspin? It’s particula…
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…
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