Monday, October 24, 2016
A new film blurs fiction and reality with its tale of an aspiring comic. It asks to what extent you can study to become funny – or if you’re just born that way“The Comedian’s Guide t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonOnce you’re over your participation-phobia, Riches’ combination of broad character-comedy and coercive stunts makes for daft fun• Paul Flecky: ‘My job is to hurl …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22PMThursday, October 20, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonIf the style is unadventurous, there are still plenty of good jokes as Forde scours the aftermath of the EU referendumBrexit comedy shows are coming thick and fast, and t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
It’s the job of standups to hold institutions to account – laugh by laugh – so why aren’t more of them laying bare the anachronistic daftness of the royal family?Is it just me, or ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:10AMSunday, October 16, 2016
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonDizzying cosmology show provides workout for the brain, with one part entertainment to 13.8bn parts educationProfessor Brian Cox finds a lot of things “bea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Royal Albert Hall, LondonBrexit gifts the Little Englander a barrel-load of acidic spoofs, but this act seems content to serve up just the mildFor most of Al Murray’s career as The Pub Lan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghRanganathan has plenty to say about veganism, choosing schools and interracial relationships, but this is an uneven hour of comedyRomesh Ranganathan was nominat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:17AMSunday, October 9, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe aggressively odd Dutch comedian skirts Bernard Manning territory, but also forces you to interrogate your opinions while you laugh in astonishment“I don’t know wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
After the success of Tape Face and Piff the Magic Dragon, purveyors of overlooked artforms might do well to swap panel-heavy British comedy for the StatesWhen I interviewed Sam Wills – AKA…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21PMSoho theatre, LondonThe usually sanguine standup draws laughs and skewers stereotypes with her account of being leftwing in a rightwing age“The David Bowie of standup,” comedian Nish Kum…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSunday, October 2, 2016
Comic Jerry Sadowitz denounced Jimmy Savile years before he was exposed. Now, writes Brian Logan, he's asking why the death of his friend Mark Blanco has never been properly investigatedThe …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PMThursday, September 29, 2016
Ofcom has censured an old episode of TV Burp, eight years after deeming its skit about a transgender man acceptable. It signals a sea change in how trans issues are treated on the small scre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMSaturday, September 24, 2016
Are the Python's comments damagingly off-message or warming us up for shows that will be more than a cynical nostalgia fest?Were you excited when you heard Monty Python were reuniting for li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Brighton CentreA familiar cast of indelible comic characters and pithy catchphrases imbue the veteran duo’s live show with a comforting glowTo open their first live show, commemorating 25 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50PMPolitical correctness used to rule comedy, but now comics routinely offend their audiences. How did things get so nasty?• Richard Herring and Brendon Burns complained about this article; t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMOn stage, the absurdist Dutch comedian is all fairytales and silly songs. Off it, he’s a deadly serious – and controversial – political campaigner. He talks fun, failure and freedom of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:25AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Cambridge JunctionPickling The Three Musketeers in their loopy imaginations, the storytelling double-act delight with a series of ad-libbed sketches “Remove your shoes,” Mark Chavez dead…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe self-effacing former public schoolboy is painfully honest about his hangups in this lovely, well-written comic set• Ten questions for Ivo GrahamIt’s been suggeste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:52PMFairfield Halls, CroydonThe current Edinburgh’s funniest joke incumbent proves his mastery of the obscure pun – but doesn’t seem to have much personal stake in his material“I decided…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMCambridge Corn ExchangeSome shows date quicker than others. "I've had another shit year," says Rhod Gilbert, introducing this touring version of his 2009 Edinburgh festival show. But – eve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Epsom Playhouse Fury at Britain’s political masters has been replaced by mild tales about life’s inconveniences in the News Quiz host’s latest show, Songs of FreedomUntil his last tour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
James Acaster has penned a sitcom pilot and Liam Williams has written a play. Both bring echoes of their striking comedy routines but neither is as successfulSitcoms, in the UK at least, are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThe Australian standup’s new set, Hussain in the Membrane, works best when it zeroes in on racial and religious sensitivitiesThe most eye-catching feature of Nazeem Hus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMMonday, September 5, 2016
There was an outpouring of emotional candour from standups at the Edinburgh festival, but Schumer skilfully keeps her anxieties at a safe distanceDoes Amy Schumer’s new tour justify the hy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSaturday, September 3, 2016
The Will and Grace star on writing songs about genitals and baring all in a new stage show about the blissful – and highly sexed – state of her union with Parks & Recreation actor Ni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Leicester Square theatre, LondonWehn dials down the Teutonic stereotypes to launch into material other comics might find too weighty – such as the farce of the London housing marketAfter 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:14PMSoho Theatre, London"If there's something strange in the neighbourhood/ Who you gonna call? Hans Teeuwen!" It takes bulletproof self-belief to conduct an opening night crowd in a singalong o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMTriple Threat, Lucy McCormick’s Nutella’n’snogging take on the New Testament, has graduated seamlessly from the queer scene to mainstream theatre. But it’s as much an attack on celeb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMBrexit, starting over, a honey-selling scam and karaoke with chickens … these are the concerns of the big names in comedy this autumn•Autumn culture: Film | Art & design | Dance | C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:10AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
Scottish standup picks up prize for fringe’s top comedy show, while Scott Gibson is named best newcomer and marathon reading of Chilcot Report also recognisedRichard Gadd has won this year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Underbelly Potterrow, EdinburghThere’s plenty of cartoonish comedy in Heath McIvor’s show about a writer who is given to splenetic outbursts – and made of feltI spent the first 10 minu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PM 
