Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Armstrong and Miller comic lambasts 'inverse snobbery' while Ricky Gervais teaches guitar – and who's the hottest comedian?This week's comedy newsWe begin with the Telegraph's tale of Alex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMArmstrong and Miller comic lambasts 'inverse snobbery' while Ricky Gervais teaches guitar and who's the hottest comedian? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMFriday, May 10, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonVentriloquist Nina Conti's show is based on the "seven ages of man" speech in As You Like It: seven of her puppet alter egos are introduced for our amusement. There's a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Brighton CentreEddie Izzard is on the UK leg of what's been billed as the biggest ever world standup tour, and the man himself is telling interviewers: "The key thing is making your stu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:52PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Deaths threats to comedian prompt calls for nationalists to raise the tone. Plus, Fringe gets new venue and Trump takes revengeThis week's comedy newsAnd this week – a comedian influences …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Firestation Arts Centre, WindsorWhat happens to a rapper when he grows up? Doc Brown is 35, with a wife, two kids, and a promising career in comedy, twinning his macho artform with softie su…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Plus: Jim Davidson too 'unpleasant' for theatre in Kent, Frankie Boyle wades in on Thatcher – and is TV comedy a closed shop?This week's comedy newsArrested last week for allegedly "insult…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMSunday, March 31, 2013
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWe're at London's Southbank Centre to see Chris Addison, so we're in the market, apparently, for jokes about olive oil, Farrow & Ball paint and how "horrible" poo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonAt the end of this show, Doctor Brown widens his arms, impossibly wide, to wrap us all in a big hug. Then one hand wanders downwards, and he's pretending to jerk us off. …
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Palace theatre, Westcliff-on-SeaThe best thing about comedy, says Rich Hall, the quality that makes it worth defending, is that it doesn't do any harm. That's not a high mast to pin your col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Plus, can a standup double as a judge, and why Danish comics are migrating to the UKThis week's comedy newsMany is the comedian who has died onstage. But few have strutted the boards while 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMMonday, February 25, 2013
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Soho theatre, LondonIt must be an embattled business, being a leftwing comedian in the United States. Jamie Kilsteinhas received death threats for suggesting rape culture is a bad thing and,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Soho theatreHot on the heels of Harry Hill, another alpha nonsense-peddler proves that sometimes (if you get it right, and not many do) comedy is at its best when it means nothing at all. Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Also this week, Mrs Brown's Boys causes a heart attack and Harry Hill comes to the rescueThis week's comedy newsJohnny Vegas has claimed that Daniel Kitson made him quit standup – but is v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonTalk about a statement of intent. Sarah Silverman's first line tonight, a beat after her intro music subsides, is: "I was brutally raped to that song." After t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMSunday, February 10, 2013
The Hawth, CrawleyThere's a strain of mathematical nerdiness to all one-liner specialists, of course; the remorseless wordplay, the dismantling of linguistic certainties brick by brick, sugg…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMNew theatre, Oxford"I'm a 48-year-old ex-doctor," wails Harry Hill, "trying to get laughs out of a baby's belt in a baguette." This is halfway through Sausage Time, his first standup show si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AMFriday, February 8, 2013
Soho theatreIkea ads, greengrocers and the work of Hans Christian Andersen: wherever Sarah Kendall looks, sexism looms large. Since her last full show, the former Perrier award nom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Bloomsbury theatre, LondonIt's hip to be square at the moment, as science claims centre of the light-entertainment stage. We've got Dara Ó Briain's Science Club on telly – and we've got t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonIt's "fucking terrifying" returning to standup after 17 years, says Alexei Sayle, and in the first five minutes, you wonder if he is going to pull it off. This is a man w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Also in this week's comedy news: Ricky Gervais gets called a 'bad standup' – and what's a 'pricket bat'? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMFriday, January 18, 2013
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Tim Minchin, James Corden and other comedians have gatecrashed the world of theatre. Now theatre is getting its own backI first saw Jackson's Way in 2003. The actor and theatre-maker Will Ad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Also in this week's roundup, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray bemoan new comedy, and the controversy surrounding the BBC's assisted-dying sitcom, Way to GoThis week's comedy newsReligion and c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMAlso in this week's roundup, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray bemoan new comedy, and the controversy surrounding the BBC's assisted-dying sitcom, Way to Go Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Duchess, LondonThe stages of Britain may be heaving this month with glitz, glitter and TV celebs, but you won't find a more reliably fun-for-all-the-family experience than the West End debut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMThursday, December 13, 2012
Soho theatre, LondonFrom Jerry Sadowitz in a Santa hat earlier this week, to David Hoyle's Christmas tree draped with dolls' heads and condoms, festive-phobes are spoiled for jaundiced enter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Leicester Square Theatre, London"It doesn't interest me," said Jerry Sadowitz in a recent interview, when asked about his now notorious 1980s routine that branded Jimmy Savile a paedophile. …
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