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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 th…
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…
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 "insultin…
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…
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…
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…
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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,…
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…
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 vow…
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…
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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…
New 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…
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…
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 …
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…
Also in this week's comedy news: Ricky Gervais gets called a 'bad standup' " and what's a 'pricket bat'? Continue reading...
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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…
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 Go Continue reading...
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…
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…
