Hackney Empire, London It won’t win prizes for originality, but the joyful ensemble spirit of Clive Rowe’s show will keep the kids happyOne day, a panto may come along in which the story is given as much (OK, even half as much) attention as the dame’s …
Continue ReadingTwo Edinburgh fringe favourites have teamed up to play mainstream entertainment titans Michael Ball and Alfie Boe in this festive season’s most unlikely stage showAlone, they are acclaimed and award-hogging entertainment colossi. Together, they are the…
Continue ReadingThe Scottish comedian received two Baftas last month, just after the death of her mother. She discusses secrets, sadness, success and how comedy sustains herAshley Storrie is describing her “massively surreal” experience at last month’s Bafta Scotland …
Continue ReadingThe standup on the power of strange shirts, the importance of never Googling yourself and how he came to specialise in one-linersHow did you get into comedy?I tried to be an actor, but nobody else wanted me to be one. Then I tried standup so “theatre p…
Continue ReadingThe standup on her first gig, why she pretended to be a stage manager for The Lion King and the best service station in the countryHow did you get into comedy?Initially I wanted to be a comedy actress, so at 18 I went off to drama school and loved it, …
Continue ReadingThe Yorkshire-born standups’s surreal take on a working men’s club has bagged him comedy awards and a BBC radio pilot. But even as he dreams of a Mrs Merton-style talkshow, he’s still insistent on keeping things surrealThe last time I saw Frankie Monro…
Continue ReadingThe Yorkshire-born standups’s surreal take on a working men’s club has bagged him comedy awards and a BBC radio pilot. But even as he dreams of a Mrs Merton-style talkshow, he’s still insistent on keeping things surrealThe last time I saw Frankie Monro…
Continue ReadingA second Donald Trump presidency may be darker than the first, but his victory has unleashed the creative energies of satirists and standups “When Trump first won, there was almost a novelty to having a character such as him in a position of such vast …
Continue ReadingThe standup comedian on growing up in Borneo and Bath, living like Batman at Cambridge, and his lifelong fascination with wrestlingBorn in Stoke-on-Trent in 1990, Phil Wang is a comedian, actor and writer. He spent most of his childhood in Malaysia wit…
Continue ReadingScottish comedian and actor whose sweary voiceovers to Nicola Sturgeon’s briefings during Covid were a viral sensationJaney Godley, the Scottish comedian, actor and writer, who has died of cancer aged 63, performed to sell-out crowds across&n…
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