Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life's little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetry
Comedians b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36PM[SHARE]Friday, August 27, 2021
Assembly Festival Garden, CoventryOlivia Miller dazzles in this tart and punky solo show, which reimagines the Tudor monarch as an in-yer-face Gen-Z teen
You might consider the fraught life …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 26, 2021
Soho theatre, London After months of being starved of social contact, David Selley's celebration of togetherness couldn't be better timed
Diane Chorley's show made a splash two years ago on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Online@theSpaceUKGuileless hero Christopher Blank is 'born without a single funny bone in his body' in a one-man play that paints a near future US in broad brushstrokes
Comedians becoming po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AM[SHARE]Monday, August 23, 2021
London WondergroundDon't expect the shock of the new from the BBC Radio 4 stalwart, but audience suggestions and music really lift the second half
Is it a live show " or an impersonation of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 22, 2021
The ex-Inbetweener's new work-in-progress standup show, about breaking beyond being typecast, has a self-lacerating character
The maladroit comic parlaying their anxiety into humour is as ol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 15, 2021
Arcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government's police, crime, sentencing and courts bill
"Behaviour that causes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Friday, August 13, 2021
Available onlineThe comic riffs on arts careers and money while playing video games and fending off his spirit animal in a likable show
Tom Mayhew is performing live on Zoom every night of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Available onlineLacy's tales about her time on Aussie TV may leave Britons bemused but her show finds its feet with a smart outlook on celebrity
Tania Lacy's standup show, Catch a Falling St…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Rio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin's sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festival
There are leaps required of artists in this week's Blue Tick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 10, 2021
NetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east Asia
From the other side of a global pandemic, he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 6, 2021
He turned Art and The Play What I Wrote into smashes. Now he's handing out flyers for Charlie and Stan. But will pandemic-shy audiences come and see it?
Reports of the death of the stereot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 2, 2021
A set-ruining act of boorishness, or a vital rite of passage for standups? Often it depends on who's doing the heckling
In the Guide's weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-cultu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Though in later years he fell from fashion, his rabbinical style in early routines felt very much like live comedy's native tongue
If Jackie Mason could speak to us now, he'd surely be repor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Friday, July 16, 2021
Preston Park, BrightonLou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O'Doherty's delightful stream of consciousness the highlight
Save for incapacitating …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 11, 2021
Grange Farm, HuntingdonWatson and Nabil Abdulrashid were two standups who managed to thrive on a first night where the rain was less forgiving than the hecklers
Another al fresco comedy gala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, July 5, 2021
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe Irish comedian and guests Nish Kumar and Fatiha El-Ghorri lift their crowd's soggy spirits with some choice gags
Aisling Bea is getting soaked; so a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 24, 2021
Turbine theatre, LondonUsing home videos of their own childhood, Rob Madge presents the moving and funny story of how a young Disney fan got to grow up to be Belle of the ball
"Are you filmi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The explosively funny standup has joked provocatively about race, leftwing politics and gender. Next up, his mother-in-law
In 2019, a performance of Fin Taylor's #MeToo-themed When Harassy M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Vaudeville theatre, LondonRuPaul's Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards rampages into the West End and has an easy way with the crowd
"My favourite subject is talking about me," Alyssa Edwards tell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Available onlineThe age of peak podcast meets its match in John-Luke Roberts and his procession of hilariously titled imaginary shows
In 2018, John-Luke Roberts's Edinburgh show consisted en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Available onlinePart behind-the-scenes doc and part reiteration of Gethard's faith in comedy, this is a vivid portrait of a peripatetic life
Chris Gethard's new film opens with the 40-year-o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 31, 2021
Netflix With electro-pop social commentary, bleak humour and sock-puppet debates, the comic's lockdown creation is astonishing
Well, now we know what Bo Burnham did with his lockdown. Inside…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 27, 2021
Soho theatre, London Newman dissects ideas with intelligence, running around the houses and back, on themes from politics and humanity to parenthood
A masked audience is a novelty at his gig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Monday, May 24, 2021
Do you want your sightlines unobstructed by big hair, or is avoiding the eyeline of savage comics your priority? Here's the perfect spot to enjoy the show
In the Guide's weekly Solved! colu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Pleasance, London, and onlineSeven comedians, including Priya Hall and Chloe Petts, marked the reopening of theatres with some slick live sets
"I think I can remember how to comedy," says Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 16, 2021
All4The Inbetweeners star plays on his first TV special's lack of audience by claiming high sophistication " while deftly pricking the bubble with pretend banter
Simon Bird always intended t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 9, 2021
Available onlineThe cast of a whodunnit are all suspects when an impresario is found dead in this likably silly, hummable show
Blackpool impresario Varthur McArthur has a doozy of an idea fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 6, 2021
Available onlineLauren Pattison, Kay Greyson and Richard Boggie deliver audio plays about stage disasters, a sobering drinks interval and playing to an audience of none
Some of the finest lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM[SHARE]The comedian's 2018 show Dr Cosmos addressed mental health, midlife and Brexit " little knowing a crisis lurked around the corner. Now it's being streamed, might no mention of Covid be a sel…
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