Thursday, 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 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 "insultin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
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 12:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:44AM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
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 12:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 vow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:57PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
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 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:11AM[SHARE]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...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 01:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 01:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2012
Invisible Dot, LondonThree hundred and sixty-four presents. That's how many you'd get if you were given everything mentioned in The Twelve Days of Christmas. Nick Mohammed has worked this ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
How close we came to losing a classic double act, standup discovers suspect package and Frankie Boyle's latest scrapThis week's comedy newsMorecambe and … no one? A "what if?" story from c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2012
Performance artist David Hoyle has paired up with the composer of Jerry Springer: the Opera for an alternative take on Christmas cabaret. The pair talk satanists, gay soldiers and why their …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Soho Theatre, LondonJudith Lucy is a household name in Australia, but making her London debut at the Soho Theatre, she's asking us to "think of this less as a gig, more as a worksh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2012
Soho theatre, LondonThe show is called Romance and Adventure, but that's deceptive, says Josie Long: it should be called "how do you carry on when you're in the pit of despair?" Long makes p…
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