Tuesday, November 17, 2020
NetflixThe US standup has his say on celebrity culture and Covid, but not the Oscars row, and ends up buffering his own ego in a new special
'It's my fucking household, I'm not holding back!…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2020
YouTube In character as an offensively aggressive comic, Heidecker weaves dodgy jokes with engaging meta twists, but ultimately a lack of variety spoils the party
Parody hack standup is a ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2020
Amazon Prime VideoThe American comic largely abstains from telling about his adventures in celibacy in a slick and wry standup special
It's an odd one, this. American comic Kevin James Doyle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
Rose Theatre, Kingston Before live comedy disappears once more, Kane delivers a terrific, barnstorming set sending up the pandemic " and the government's laughable response to it
On Wednesda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2020
Some standups see it as their job to provide collective catharsis for the coronavirus, while others see pandemic gags as off-limits " even ones about Trump
"I've been getting a lot out of l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2020
21Soho, LondonBritain's Got Talent botherer Nabil Abdulrashid leads an impressively forthright and sometimes edgy night of standup dealing with race and identity
Comedian Nabil Abdulrashid …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2020
Apollo theatre, London London's theatre district reopened its doors to stage an evening of well-aimed wrath that somehow finds comedy in kidney surgery
After seven months away, the West End…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2020
Battersea Arts Centre, London, and online Audience participation at arm's length via screen happily injects some welcome randomness into this six-person improvised sketch show
How do you do …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
The comedian's new podcast is bursting with enthusiasm for poems. If standup forces him to be funny, here he forces himself to be true
'Phwooar " Ginsy Ginsy Ginsy, I love you so much!" You …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2020
Britain's Got Talent star Myra Dubois turns agony aunt in a show that might raise the roof in a theatre " but not online
Myra Dubois was a staple of the cabaret scene for years before Simon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2020
NetflixJoyous reflections on new motherhood, Amsterdam's museums and working with J-Lo see the charismatic standup cresting a career-high wave
Welcome to Buteaupia, Michelle Buteau's Netflix…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2020
National Maritime MuseumSara Pascoe, Rich Hall and Aisling Bea warm to an excited crowd " and a divine heckler " in the chilly outdoors
'Comedy isn't essential?" asks Rich Hall, incredulousl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2020
As the 'Duchess of Canvey' releases a greatest hits album, her creator relives an extraordinary journey from Southend to the West End via schoolteaching and Ibiza superclubs
'Diane is based …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Netflix The horizons may be narrow in the British standup's special but nobody does this sort of material better
There's something odd about watching Michael McIntyre's first Netflix specia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2020
Netflix The Mexican-American comic offers English and Spanish versions of his show, but the sexist fare is depressing however you look at it
With Bad Decisions/Malas Decisiones, Felipe Espar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2020
With the Edinburgh festival shelved by Covid, standups have turned a garden shed into a stage for an online extravaganza. Our writer enjoys flashes of brilliance amid a dislocating experienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2020
Bridget Christie pokes fun at Madonna, Suzi Ruffell talks smear tests and John Robins is heckled about Butlins. Our critic's first standup gig in months is a riot of joy and tension
'This is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2020
Audiobook, available onlinePenguin's fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comics including Jordan Brookes, Glamrou, Mo Amar, Michelle de Swarte and Sheeps
'I'm just ima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2020
Podcast There are secret recordings, spoof calls and cringing reflections in the performance artist's attempts to find meaning in life
'I used to be a comedian," says Kim Noble in part three…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2020
The Edinburgh fringe may have been cancelled but there are plenty of online gigs to enjoy featuring Dane Baptiste, Ivo Graham, Sarah Millican and more
The line between charity gigs and norma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2020
YouTubeFootage of Dara Ó Briain, Sarah Millican, John Bishop and Jason Byrne features in this attempt to recapture the mythic status of a renowned fringe night
Greatest Ever Late 'n' Liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2020
Covid-19 has cancelled the annual jamboree, leaving performers " and our comedy critic " bereft. What does the festival mean to them and how will it change?
Meeting Flight of the Conchords a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
Cadogan Hall, LondonIn a global livestream, the former Python delivers alimony gags, a bit of PC-baiting " and an amusingly grumpy lecture on how nobody knows anything
The decision to postpo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2020
The yearly festival is a celebration of entertainment, art, rain, booze, cobbles and closeness to strangers. Roll on 2021 ...
Remotely entertaining: Edinburgh highlights beamed to your livi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2020
When you've shared jokes since childhood, you can be brutally honest with each other. Flo & Joan and Ruby Wax's daughters, Maddy and Marina Bye, on becoming family double acts
They've b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2020
Alan Partridge's Sidekick Simon takes it out on his own hapless wingman " but Enya's repeated interruptions slow the flow
I've missed live comedy very much since the closure of theatres. But…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2020
Originally planned as an Edinburgh show, You Build the Thing You Think You Are is now a film " and a different proposition to live-streamed lockdown comedy
Joz Norris's new experiment starts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2020
Bec Hill, Laura Davis and Eshaan Akbar can be watched on this online home for comedy's rising stars and circuit regulars
With gig venues closed, where do you turn for your comedy fix? You ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2020
YouTubeBuress revisits the story of his 2017 arrest for disorderly intoxication in an enjoyable online set that uses technology creatively
Cross a comedian at your peril. They can put their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM[SHARE]YouTubeIn Stalter's sharply observed, bittersweet character comedy, a string of awkward talkative types bare their souls
Disastrous for many comedians, lockdown has propelled others to prom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Available onlineThe gruff comic from Brooklyn appalls and entertains as he rages against the debauchery of modern America
Eddie Pepitone's closest brush with UK fame came in 2012, when the i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM[SHARE] 
