Thursday, September 19, 2024
The standup is building on his success at the Royal Academy summer exhibition with a book of his work, Art Hole. So has he gone all highbrow? The art reveals all …
Despite being best known…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
The comedian's claim that wokeness is the reason why comedy is no longer as funny is lazy " and inaccurate
Jerry Seinfeld is currently at saturation point, promoting his new Pop Tarts movie …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The internet is rife with speculation about the real-life stalker and real-life abuser from the Netflix hit. Is this show about exploitation starting to seem uncomfortably careless " even ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2022
The 83-year-old Lord of the Rings and X-Men star emerged from a giant golden egg to publicise his role in the Mother Goose panto " and given us just what we need in these troubling times
The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 11, 2021
It began as a way to moan about the pandemic " or avoid childcare. Now Lockdown Parenting Hell is downloaded 2m times a month. The comedians chat fatherhood, burnout " and dreaming of the pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
From Dench in a dog hat to Elaine Paige in flower-clad rubber gloves, entertainment royalty is standing up to coronavirus with some bizarre comic relief. Now, where's Cher?
' Coronavirus and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2020
News that long-running sitcom The Nanny is headed to the stage, with help from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom, brings to mind other potential transfers
It's easy to forget what a success…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2019
The show of humour and hope " featuring the Queen and Dizzee Rascal " lulled us into a false sense of security, ill-preparing us for the bleak years to come
We are about to be expelled from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The movie adaptation of the Lloyd Webber musical appalled viewers when its first trailer launched four months ago. Now a new one is here, has it improved things?
Four months. It's been four …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
From apocalyptic standup Frankie Boyle to the many hilarious faces of Tina Fey, Steve Coogan, Sharon Horgan and Kristen Wiig, we present the funniest comics of the era
Our No 1 comedian's f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2016
McIntyre may be a floppy-haired berk who has built a career out of listing things people do, but his cheeky Big Show is the best weekend variety telly in yearsLet me begin by running through…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
On-demand TV is increasingly the best place to get quality standup comedy " here are some of the best, including John Mulaney's precise routines and Chelsea Peretti's unrelenting nonsenseStr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
'No, Mr Bond, I expect you to … DANCE!': why a 007 musical is a terrible ideaThe tension is palpable. James Bond finds himself strapped to a bench in the depths of Goldfinger's lair, a las…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Rocky is likely to be a Broadway success " so which of Sly's other films deserve the song and dance treatment?Rocky is far from the first movie to be turned into a Broadway musical, but it m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Six nominees, including Sarah Millican, Jack Whitehall and Graham Norton, are up for the top comedy award. Who will win? The answer hinges on something I call the Neediness IndexThe king or …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
Whatever Cirque du Soleil's dubious appeals, it categorically does not belong on a cinema screenCirque du Soleil's brand of aggressive chicken-in-a-basket whimsy might be wildly successful i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
Just when you thought Les Misérables couldn't get any more emotionally devastating, along comes Russell Crowe … singingAlthough it's been adapted for the screen dozens of times over the c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
This week's news in the artsIn recent years, exam results have been accompanied by two things " commentators grumbling about declining standards, and countless pictures of pretty girls …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2010
McIntyre and The Hoff are replacing Piers Morgan on the Britain's Got Talent judging panel. Which in one way is excellent news …It's sad that Piers Morgan has left Britain's Got Talent. Af…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45AM[SHARE] 
