Riki Lindhome jokes at the start of Dead Inside that although her musical comedy show is about her “fertility journey” she hates the term “journey” when it is used in this context. You wouldn’t call... more
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I think it would be fair to say that you could describe Alasdair Beckett-King's look as distinctive without worrying that a defamation charge will land in your inbox. Long auburn/copper hair, mud-... more
From Fawlty Towers to Have I Got News for You it's usually America that adapts English shows, so that already makes the UK version of US comedy warhorse Saturday Night Live an anomaly. Plus there's a... more
Can comedy lightning strike twice? It would appear that in the case of Last One Laughing UK it really can. After the runaway success of the show last year the second season has just dropped and... more
Please don't call me a traitor but I didn't think the first epsiode of the new Friday night chat show fronted by Claudia Winkleman was very good. I'm sure it'll improve from here and as a big chat... more
Simon Evans is 60. He states this fact at the start of his set, and it provides the foundation for the themes and most of the jokes that ensue, as well as a handy marker for the average age of his... more
There is powerpoint presentation in comedy and then there is Josh Sharp. While the likes of Dave Gorman pepper their shows with judiciously placed clips and slides, American performer Sharp explains... more
Rob Beckett has talked recently about how he is going to take a break from stand-up for a while to focus more on bringing up his two children and letting his wife Lou have more of a career, having... more
After the success of more conventional sitcom Derry Girls, writer Lisa McGee has taken the energy and zip of the schooldays comedy and applied it to a group of adult women along with a mystery plot... more
There’s an illuminating anecdote in Ben Elton’s autobiography What Have I Done? about Elton chatting to former PM Jim Callaghan at a Downing Street Party in the 1990s. A waiter comes along and asks... more
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