Monday, March 24, 2025
Long derided, improvisational comedy is now attracting big-name stars such as Kiell Smith-Bynoe and One Day’s Ambika Mod. There’s more to it than showing off, they say – and don’t ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, February 28, 2025
When Amy Gledhill and Harriet Kemsley both realised the other was newly unattached, the standups decided to create Single Ladies in Your Area, a hit podcast about divorces, dating and unwant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, October 18, 2024
After Starstruck and Taskmaster, the new project sees Sidi play a profane, lowbrow version of Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff. She explains why her latest comedy creation is breaking-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMFriday, May 10, 2024
Standup has enjoyed a rapid rise in India over the last decade, and now its leading lights are conquering the Edinburgh fringe and packing out the Royal Albert Hall. Where better to take aim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, April 8, 2024
Her Tory parody videos shot her to fame online in 2020. As her skits go on stage, she talks about her path into comedy and what a Labour win would mean for her act
These days, Rosie Holt fin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, March 15, 2024
From Fern Brady to Hannah Gadsby, a host of comedians have discovered that they are autistic. What is it about standup that lends itself so well to neurodivergent people?
In 2020, Pierre Nov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Fawlty Towers, The Fast Show, Only Fools and Horses … the vogue for screen-to-stage shows taps into our need for nostalgia
If you were craving a hit of comedy nostalgia, where would you go…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, October 6, 2023
Off the heels of publishing a memoir, the star of Taskmaster and Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable discusses unhappy readers, deleting Twitter, and outing Russell Brand
“Can you say I wafted in l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMFriday, September 1, 2023
As he gears up for his new tour, the cult US standup muses on parenthood, ‘offensive’ comedy, and the biggest regret of his career
Most people aren’t exactly delighted when their preci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMWednesday, March 15, 2023
Could the celebrated standup knock out an album of his own tunes? Yes, he says, with the aid of a dusty old drum kit, 40 musicians – and a novelty animal costume
It started off, as many gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMSaturday, December 31, 2022
You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days
MUSI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, June 29, 2022
The comedian’s new podcast plunders neighbourhood messageboards for fun, feuds, gossip and second-hand goldfish. She explains all – and looks ahead to her Edinburgh show, a support group…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AMMonday, June 27, 2022
The actor, writer, musician, podcaster and comedian is returning to standup after overwork and parenthood left her burnt out. She discusses motherhood, Fomo and life after Peep Show
In one v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMTuesday, June 7, 2022
You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnival
Music Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMFriday, April 29, 2022
With the return of their unashamedly nice TV gameshow Hypothetical, the duo are out to prove you don’t need to be mean-spirited to get laughs
Josh Widdicombe is holding a banana to his ear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMThursday, April 14, 2022
From career doldrums to fending off pantless stage invaders, the straight-talking Irish comic’s journey to becoming a must-see act has been a wild ride
At a recent gig, an audience member …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMFriday, March 4, 2022
Can you do a whole standup set about blowjobs? The New York comedian thinks so, but don’t assume her show is a feminist rallying cry
“Even I would be irritated hearing about this show i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Comedy and music have always co-existed – but with artists from Dry Cleaning to Bo Burnham cleverly blurring the two, it’s hard to tell where the jokes begin and end
Some of my favourite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMTuesday, August 10, 2021
Chris Rock, Jennifer Saunders and more have argued that ‘wokeness’ is stifling comedy. But the idea of the joke police is actually nonsense
Is cancel culture destroying comedy? A lot of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMSaturday, June 5, 2021
After surviving the ‘gross’ world of standup, the comic is now starring in funny and frank film Shiva Baby. She talks about satirising erotic selfies and why cinema gets sex workers wron…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
From Adult Swim to ‘dank memes’, modern comedy is confronting the illogicality of life in 2019
There is an episode in the first season of Broad City – the US sitcom about two twentysom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Best known as Alan Partridge's Sidekick Simon, the self-proclaimed Single White Slut has found a keen audience for his weird, unsettling comedy"I didn't have an elaborate cover story that I'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMFriday, September 22, 2017
The Canadian standup and actor on the things that make her laugh the most, from suede waistcoats to PG WodehouseThis is so hard. I feel sick. OK, I’m going to say Tom Allen taking out a dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, September 15, 2017
The Guilty Feminist podcast host on the things that make her laugh the most, from Tim Minchin to Better Off DeadA tie between two Australians: Tim Minchin’s Ready for This? and Hannah Gads…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMFriday, September 8, 2017
The actor, podcaster and improv star on the things that make her laugh the mostBroad City. It was the first time I saw female characters allowed to be just funny: not having to facilitate pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMFriday, September 1, 2017
The comedian and Taskmaster creator on the things that make him laugh the most, from Tim Key to The Blues BrothersEvery time I see Tommy Tiernan talking about sex or nothing or God I howl wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, August 25, 2017
The standup stalwart and TV host lets us in on the things that make him laugh the most, from The Simpsons to Monty PythonI watched the Monty Python spam sketch when it first went out – tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMFriday, August 18, 2017
The up-and-coming standup whiz spills the beans about the things that make him laugh the most, from Lucky Jim to A Fish Called WandaHenry Paker at Edinburgh in 2010. Him, the surrealist mave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMFriday, August 11, 2017
The prankster character comic behind Lee Nelson dishes the dirt on the things that make him laugh the mostJerry Sadowitz. His seething, bile-fuelled, offend-all-and-don’t-give-a-fig approa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, August 4, 2017
The actor and sketch show comic opens up about the things that make her laugh the most, from The Thick of It to German nipplesI love the Nazi sketch by Mitchell and Webb. Two Nazis worrying …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, July 28, 2017
The angst-mining millennial standup on the things that make him laugh the most, from Frank Skinner to tight vestsFrank Skinner’s routine on jealousy changed how I viewed standup. It has ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM 
