Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Available online With weariness and seething frustration, the comedian sounds off in style about gender inequality and sexism
The starting point of Jen Brister’s 2018 show Meaningless, no…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMonday, June 1, 2020
Available onlineLive cabaret becomes alternative sketch show as the Stamptown gang make merry with Zoom-era laughs
Can you capture online the raucous energy of the best live comedy cabarets?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, May 31, 2020
Available on Netflix★★★☆☆/★★☆☆☆Oswalt’s frothy set about ageing, Jesus and fitness freaks keeps the laughs coming, while a barking Rubin delivers something much harder …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Available on NetflixGadsby follows up her hit show Nanette with a swaggering set that blazes with well-earned confidence
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance online
The last …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMMonday, May 25, 2020
Audio downloadSixty years on, the taboo-busting comic can seem incoherent and insensitive but there’s no doubting his masterful wordplay
He may be the least listened-to of standup icons. N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMFriday, May 22, 2020
Festivals cancelled, venues shut and funding shelved: Covid-19 has forced those working in theatre to rethink their art form
‘It’s like the seven stages of grief,” says Paula Varjack,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, May 15, 2020
Available on YouTubeEddie Izzard and standups from India, Australia and beyond roast fake news and bust coronavirus taboos in an entertaining if patchy webcam variety fundraiser for frontlin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
NetflixFinding a novel angle on everything from Pop-Tarts to the annoyances of modern technology, the American everyman is still on sparkling form
Mixed messages emanate from Jerry Seinfeld�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, May 3, 2020
The blokey joker fired up his webcam to deliver a 24 hours of faux-ballads, toilet humour and even a real-life wedding
The best theatre and dance to watch online
The best arts and entertain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, April 23, 2020
Available onlineTherapy, foreplay and the nature of standup all fall into the crosshairs of a scattergun show that never fails to find its target
Who better to turn to at a time of social is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Available onlineThe comedian’s daily interactive webcast is a load of shambolic, lo-fi silliness – which is just what we need right now
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Amazon PrimeWith this adroit and thoughtful show about death and sadness, the Australian standup has her audience in tears
• Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMSunday, April 12, 2020
This streaming event hosted by Anna Mann (AKA Colin Hoult) on NextUp was a valiant experiment in performing live comedy without an audience
“There is no eerier sight,” my fellow comedy c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMTuesday, April 7, 2020
Available onlineThe comedian’s first standup special since he was disgraced in 2017 is heavy on self-pity and won’t appease those outraged by his behaviour
Hottest front-room seats: the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMMonday, March 23, 2020
The Sherlock star joined Robin Ince and Josie Long’s daily online broadcast to self-isolated comedy fans – and the results were rallying
‘Stay apart – and keep connecting,” is the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMWednesday, March 18, 2020
With gigs cancelled and no support given to an art form that Art Council England does not officially recognise, comedians fear the worst
Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, March 13, 2020
Soho theatre, LondonSix almost-Americans narrate stories of cruelties inflicted when being expelled from the US
When we think of deportees, we seldom think of native Brits. But sometimes the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Epstein theatre, LiverpoolTouring for the first time in seven years, it’s clear that the standup veteran hasn’t lost any of his sharp humour
‘As Emperor Hirohito said after the Hiroshi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
SSE Hydro, GlasgowThe Two Amigos deploy mutual mickey-taking and the odd banjo riff in a variety show with comic timing to die for
It started life as a cosy Q&A at a comedy festival. The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
They’re inspired by Charlie Hedbo and tell jokes that would get British comedians cancelled. Our writer spends a week watching French standups
How Greece’s theatre staged triumph from t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMMonday, March 2, 2020
The titan of Irish comics is on a roll after his sitcom and chatshow success, but he is still excited and overwhelmed by the art of standup
‘The older you get,” asks Tommy Tiernan, “do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSunday, March 1, 2020
Fairfield Halls, LondonIn his show Taxi Tour, the comic from last year’s Britain’s Got Talent offers only standard-issue middle-aged standup
Kojo Anim was a star of the black standup ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Radlett Centre, HertfordshireThis grab-bag show sheds little light on our political travails but it’s stuffed with funny caricatures and plenty of myth-busting
How did we get here? asks Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, February 11, 2020
The oddball standup delivers deliciously terrible, wonderful jokes as he leads the charge for alternatives to the mainstream
When John-Luke Roberts scored an Edinburgh fringe success with th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMMonday, February 10, 2020
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThe comedian leads us from weird to wonderful to ‘the absolute worst of humanity’ in his new show about social media
Twitter has curdled pub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Soho theatre, LondonThe Malaysian standup is strongest when he delivers adroit gags about Asian versus British stereotypes, from dogs to food allergies
Asians do this and Brits do that. That…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, January 24, 2020
Soho theatre, LondonThe standup’s new show, Backward, dissects the pitfalls of fame but her joyfully undercutting humour hasn’t suffered
Rosie Jones appeared eight times, she specifies,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, January 23, 2020
The gameshow star and former GP on how he wrote his ‘career best’ standup material after getting married – and being diagnosed with Parkinson’s
‘You don’t expect the most eventfu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMThursday, January 16, 2020
Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonA transatlantic voyage in 1910, with the silent stars onboard, is the basis of Told By An Idiot’s beguiling comedy
Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel shared a boa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSoho theatre, LondonThe charming musical misfits are funniest at their most absurd, serving up numbers that range from klezmer to folderol folk
Most of us watched the Bros documentary and la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMSunday, January 12, 2020
Cambridge JunctionThe Yorkshire comic’s endearing set about mistakes made in public roars into life with a final, extraordinary reveal
Who among us, deciding instantly on a course of actio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PM 
