BrainCan - comedy

trump hits back at late night shows critical of...

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters...

the health benefits of humor

Laughter may not literally be the best medicine,but there's some good evidence that it can...

jamali maddix: i saw bill hicks and thought,...

When the Essex-born comic first came across the firebrand US standup as a teen,he saw a way to...

flight of the conchords review - an intense hit of...

Soho theatre,LondonBret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement return with hilarious dialogue and original...

maggies plan review - terrifically funny...

Greta Gerwig,Julianne Moore and Ethan Hawke star in Rebecca Miller’s witty, invigorating film...

the phil silvers show box set review: as scheming...

Bilko scammed,conned, hustled and grifted his way through fast-thinking, and highly elaborate...

will self meets stewart lee: are you really,...

As his TV series returns to our screens,comedian Stewart Lee talks to Will Self about his prickly...

nath valvos grindr: a love story? review - slap...

Soho theatre,Londonsection idiot’s guide to the sex app, section confessional standup, or this...

finding the unfunny: a year of watching standups...

There’s nothing like a comedian bombing so tough that the audience is left confused and angry. To...

david cross: making america great again! review -...

The Forum,LondonThe Arrested Development star is undoubtedly an adept comic but his political show...

going forward review - a serious comedy but dont...

Jo Brand’s Nurse Kim has gone private,which doesn’t actually manufacture life any easier. Plus:...

outside, looking out: the twisted world of richard...

Richard Gadd carved a cult reputation for himself with schlocky shows full of drugs,sex and gore....

the oversharer: jessie cave wants to tell you all...

‘At the cessation of the demonstrate I’d just cover’ … the actress-comedian’s Edinburgh...

the marvelous mrs maisel review: women take on the...

Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s unusual prove centres on a housewife turned...

miles jupp is the chap youre thinking of - review

Ambassadors,LondonThe 'know-it-all posh boy' broadens his appeal with his latest showMiles...

jeff garlin review - curb your enthusiasm comic...

Larry David’s accomplice makes up for the fitfulness of a half-assembled show with infectious...

love actually: the rise of interracial romcoms

Mixed raced relationships on screen arent new,but they’ve rarely been seen in romcoms. Now, The...

tony law review - a standup parping one long...

Leicester Square theatre,LondonOutlandish non sequiturs stack up as the wild-eyed, wide-grinned Law...

boy meets girl review - groundbreaking but...

Still full of hugs and smiles,TV’s first transgender sitcom is hard not to like. Plus: a nostalgic...

sarah silverman: jokes i made 15 years ago id...

Sarah Silverman’s comedy has always aimed a laser into the dim corners of sexism,racism and...

jonny the baptists review - spirited...

Orange Tree,RichmondInspired by a promise approximately climate change to a four-year-obsolete girl,...

joe lycett review - pansexual gadfly tickles the...

Royal and Derngate,NorthamptonThe naturally funny panel-show regular inhabits a small world, but he...

the night before review - smug semi stoner...

Even Michael Shannon’s entertaining cameo can’t save this festive season comedy from mediocrity...

dan harmon: it feels like i m always referencing...

His cult sitcom Community may be over,but his sci-fi cartoon for Adult Swim proves the mercurial...

derek and clive are back - are they too much for...

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s relentlessly filthy 70s albums anticipated punk,and influenced both...

paul chowdhry review - tawdry gags about gypsies,...

Beck theatre,HayesThe standup’s PC’s World seldom strays from xenophobia in a show full of...

quo vado? review - italian smash fails to grab

This vehicle for Italian comedy star Checco Zalone approximately a government official sent to the...

how to be single review - give me a girls box set...

This disingenuous one-star ensemble comedy about dating in New York seems to maintain been created...

trumps tormentor: vic berger, the viral video...

His dystopian mashups are the perfect response to our topsy-turvy world. Meet Vic Berger,the...

josie long review - a wistfully witty bid to find...

Soho theatre,London[br]The usually sanguine standup draws laughs and skewers stereotypes with her...

bricking it: the builder swapping jobs with his...

For a show under construction at Battersea Arts Centre,Joanna Griffin is teaching the art of comedy...

will grace review - welcome return for smart,...

The 90s sitcom radical for its central gay characters is back with White House pillow fights and...

the brain show review - tartan trousers, agile wit

Soho theatre,LondonA genial Rob Newman rubbishes theories about the brain in his mindful new...

hal cruttenden review - mocks the weak with brio

Leicester Square theatre,London The TV regular has constructed a plausible world full of...

should dapper laughs be forgiven?

The lad’s comedian Daniel O’Reilly killed his on-stage persona after a sexism storm last year....

my lying, cheating hero lance armstrong

When his first solo indicate flopped,Kieran Hodgson feared he wasn’t fascinating enough to be a...

greg davies review - supremely silly standup...

Hammersmith Apollo,LondonIn an exuberant fresh exhibit, Davies scrutinises his own ridiculousness...

frank kelly obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor best known for playing the ranting,drunken Father Jack in the Channel...

are you gruesome tonight? the comedy hit splicing...

In Sam Raimi’s horror classic,a man is tormented by demons and his own severed hand. All the story...

tim key review - spilt lager, poohsticks and an...

Soho theatre,LondonHis first standup set in three years works a treat as Key paints a slyly humorous...

ron funches review - undateable tv star brings...

Soho theatre,LondonThe tittering US comedian finds his own jokes hilarious in a show that offers...

do adjust your set: when comedians swap the stage...

Two current TV series – Together and The nearly Impossible Gameshow – demonstrate how live acts...

the best of i love lucy box set review: one of...

Lucille Ball actually gets spanked by her husband in some episodes,but it’s clear this uniquely...

weird al yankovic review - supreme nerds full tilt...

Hammersmith Apollo,LondonTwo hours of machine-tooled musical parody (humorous or ridiculous...

ruby wax: sane new world review - mindfulness in...

St James theatre,LondonIs it a showbiz tale or a workshop for the audience? It’s tough to tell,...

adam hills review - bland standup show packs a...

G Live,GuildfordThe ‘nicest man in comedy’ is soft-hearted to a fault, in a set of optimistic...

mime superstar trygve wakenshaw: i just want to be...

The gangly New Zealander trained as a clown and spent 10 years in theatre before his masterclasses...

bill bailey review - back to his blithe best

Vaudeville theatre,LondonFrom riffs on Labour’s ‘experimental’ period to a German-language...

daisy may cooper: people shout kerry! out of...

The actor and writer on the return of her cult sitcom This Country,shopping at Sports Direct and...

desiree burch review - stellar standup set about...

Soho theatre,LondonThe US standup takes a bull-in-a-china-shop approach to social anthropology –...

noel fielding: back from the mighty boosh to take...

Fielding found mainstream fame in the UK as part of surrealist duo The Mighty Boosh,but didn’t...

the five stages of british gags: silliness,...

Are you Fawlty,Edina, Partridge or Brent? In his recent play Monster Raving Loony, and James Graham...

its about time comedians asked if science stands...

With The Brain prove,Robert Newman provides a welcome counter-argument to the many comedians hymning...

josh widdicombe review - cosy laughs from a...

G Live,GuildfordWiddicombe’s tone of plaintive adenoidal consternation is as funny as his best...

the d train review - funny and nasty jack black...

This high-school reunion comedy entertainingly skewers male midlife breakdown and bromantic...

kings of loser comedy: how flight of the conchords...

unusual Zealand’s ‘fourth most popular folk-parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) act’ are...

popstar: never stop never stopping review - spot...

The Lonely Island crew send up the Biebers and 1Ds of this world with a sharp spoof popumentaryWith...

jonathan pie at edinburgh festival review - foul...

Pleasance Courtyard,EdinburghTom Walkers Tory-blasting internet hit arrives on stage but there are...

the jon ronson mysteries review - stories from the...

Leicester Square theatre,LondonThe chronicler of society’s oddest habits leads an endearing book...

sofie hagen: danish comics would ask, do you need...

A poster girl for Generation Overshare,Danish standup Sofie Hagen talks approximately everything...

rob newman: bill hicks wanted to support us. i...

The comedian on his odyssey into the human brain,why he never wants to play a stadium again – and...

paul zerdin review - stale standup for dummies

Udderbelly,LondonThe British ventriloquist and America’s Got Talent winner is a virtuosic...

black mountain poets review - bickering sisters...

Alice Lowe,Dolly Wells and Tom Cullen excel in this flimsy, funny tale of siblings who impersonate...

steve rannazzisis 9 11 story is pure fantasy...

Standup comedians possess a remarkable ability to turn the worst parts of their lives into comedy...

natasia demetriou - comedys most nervous standup?

In a expose inspired by men she met on Tinder,with supporting roles for her family and her dog, the...

griff rhys jones: where was i? review -...

The Old Market,BrightonThere’s no shortage of self-deprecating chatter as the comedian looks back...

late night gimp fight review - death, deviance and...

Soho theatre,London The troupe return with gags about Tindr, Trump and kidnapping. But can you still...

hyprov review - bizarre hypnosis show gets the...

Just for Laughs festival,LondonComedian Colin Mochrie and mesmerist Asad Mecci pitch suggestible...

julian barratt: i have trouble keeping a lid on...

The Mighty Boosh star is back in Flowers,a sitcom about a dysfunctional family. He talks about...

the kennedys: more than just rose tinted memories

Like Cradle to Grave and Danny and the Human Zoo,Emma Kennedy’s sitcom mines a 70s childhood, but...

the trip to italy box set review: fabulous food,...

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon bring James Bond,Ronnie Corbett, Michael Caine and many more along for...

doug stanhope: pro choice, pro drugs, but...

The comedian who ran for president for a laugh is now considering quitting comedy altogether. Or is...

walk like a panther review - brit wrestling comedy...

The World of Sport type British wrestling gets a workout but despite its likeable and entertaining...

matt lucas: losing my hair at the age of six...

One memorable moment defined his early childhood being knocked down by a car. Could that explain...

it s high time we stopped mentioning the war |...

Stuart Jeffries is so factual about Brits’ infantile and ignorant obsession with Germans (Freud...

detectorists series two box set review: mackenzie...

Gentle,touching, well-observed humour and fond aerial shots of rural Essex: life is sweetly poignant...

war on everyone review - cops behaving badly

Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña play detective partners applying misanthropic poetic licence...

nazeem hussain review - sparks fly with stalin,...

Soho theatre,LondonThe Australian standup’s unusual set, Hussain in the Membrane, or works best...

songs for amy review - no love lost for the one...

Hearts are broken,but it’s hard to feel the love for this unconvincing romantic dramedyThere are...

breaking the bank review - fluffy financial sitcom

A good cast led by Kelsey Grammer lifts this comedy about banking,as an obsolete-fashioned British...

should comedians stand up for a political party?

Politics is fruitful ground for comics,but there are pitfalls to jumping on specific bandwagons –...

this week s new comedy

Adam Riches Is Coach Coach | Richard Gadd: Waiting For Gaddot | Gein’s Family GiftshopGiven that...

freud, dads army and 70 years of nazi jokes

As the domestic Guard ride again,our writer puts Britain’s endless obsession with anti-German...

the night shift box set review: nordic telly isn t...

Three outcasts work in an all-night filling station,getting into hilarious scrapes under the...

sleeping with other people review - watchable...

This yarn approximately two former lovers who bump into each other at a sex addiction clinic is...

stella street box set review: just popping down...

Phil Cornwell and John Sessions play the cornershop owners Jagger and Richards – plus Jack...

i sympathise with louise beaumont: we comedians...

Looking for the laughs in painful personal stories makes for fascinating subject matter,but...

denis learys no cure for cancer: still...

Cited as one of the all-time great standup sets,Leary’s demonstrate both hasn’t aged well and...

flowers review - a gloriously dark sitcom about...

Will Sharpe’s new comedy,starring Julian Barratt and Olivia Colman, is genuinely original – and...

hari kondabolu: my comedy is very american. it s...

When his joke about race and racism went viral,Kondabolu was pegged as the voice of protest. The...

woody allens annie hall voted funniest screenplay...

Director’s 1977 comedy about neurotic recent York couple tops Writers Guild of America’s list of...

victoria wood: i feel at the bbc i am not trusted,...

The comedian and writer on how difficult it is to work for the BBC,her insecurity – and her...

jen kirkman review - limited laughs in a routine...

Soho theatre,London[br]The US comedian’s series of self-centred anecdotes are diverting enough,...

sing street review - pitch perfect commitments...

Like a worthy pop song,Once director John Carney’s comedy approximately schoolboys in 1980s Dublin...

welcome to me review - reality tv satire worth...

A mentally ill woman’s lottery win sees her become the star of her own televised life in a...

dane baptiste: if we lived in an equal society, i...

Dane Baptiste packed in his dead-cessation job to change the world. Britain’s answer to Chris Rock...

look around you box set review: o level science...

How do you shave raspberries? What’s a Bakerloo bell jar? How do you make sulphagne? The mysteries...

tracey ullman s show review - it s not brave or...

Our Trace is back on British telly after 30 years. If you’re already a fan,youll love her novel...

dawn french review - comic opens her heart in...

Vaudeville,LondonFrench draws on memories of her beloved father and her relationship with her body...

swing your pants: trev and simon are back

The groovy Going Live! duo,who spent Saturday mornings mucking around with Sting and Kylie, are...

is jeremy corbyn too nice for satire?

A man being persuaded to compromise on his lofty ideals could make for mighty comedy – but given...

damned review - pitch black comedy finds the funny...

Jo Brand and Morwenna Banks’s sitcom is scathing and subtle as it makes unfunny subjects...

how do you solve a problem like the donald?...

Nazeem Hussain,Emily Heller and Stephen K Amos acknowledge one pressing question: how do you acquire...

louis ck review - a standup masters return to form

Madison Square Garden,unique YorkAfter a period in which it seemed he was in decline, Louis CK has...

the boss review - a baggy collection of comic...

Melissa McCarthy’s talents save this minor comedy about a disgraced business mogul forced to...

popstar review: bieber esque parody skewers bratty...

The cameo-crammed mockumentary hits all the upright notes as Andy Samberg’s group the Lonely...

susan calman: how marlene dietrich changed my...

Short and stocky,comedian Susan Calman made a point of looking unattractive – until the 1930s...

garry shandling obituary

American comedian whose self-referential style influenced many othersWith two landmark series in the...

margaret cho review - sex positive comedy with...

Leicester Square theatre,London[br]Cho gleefully goads the demure (quiet, modest, reserved) with an...

hunderby review: woodland sex before the opening...

Hunderby is the filthiest filth,but you can obtain away with a lot by being very good and very...

catastrophe box set review: a six nighter becomes...

Sharon Horgan’s Irish teacher and Rob Delaney’s American advertising guy are a perfect,witty fit...

luke mcqueen: the fearsome standup whose life is a...

He packed out a gig by pretending Frankie Boyle was performing. His new demonstrate settles a score...

cameron esposito review - poised to be the next...

Gramercy Theatre,New YorkDescribed as the future of comedy by Jay Leno, Esposito is an inclusive, or...

the d train review - reunion comedy at the bottom...

Jack Black tries to bring a star name back to school,with forgettable resultsThis first directorial...

silicon valley: the whip smart satire thats mark...

By skewering San Francisco’s bitchiness and jargon,the tech comedy is winning fans across the Bay...

bajillion dollar properties: the home buying...

Comedy Bang Bang’s Scott Aukerman has teamed up with his wife Kulap Vilaysack to lampoon the...

the night before review - tired christmas bromance

Seth Rogen,Joseph Gordon-Levitt and friends can’t raise this token seasonal offering from the...

andrew bailey: people have violent arguments...

Rhik Samadder meets the Comedy Store misfit and forgotten pioneer of British alternative comedyAn...

katy wix: i ve written women who swear and are...

She plays the naive Daisy in Not Going Out and stars in sitcoms Together and Fried. But Katy Wix has...

this week s best live comedy

Laugh4Rory | Joe Lycett | Sean HughesWaldenström’s Macroglobulinemia sounds like the sort of...

send in the frowns: is this the age of the serious...

A New York Times article suggests that ‘public truth-telling has become the responsibility of...

misery loves comedy? dont make me laugh

A fresh documentary suggests comedians are tortured geniuses,a breed apart. But it’s time to...

misery loves comedy? its time to forget the tears...

A new documentary suggests comedians are tortured geniuses,a breed apart. But they’re just regular...

boy meets girl: a transgender comedy full of...

BBC2’s unusual sitcom starring Rebecca Root and Harry Hepple doesn’t shy absent from issue-based...

have you been watching the last man on earth?

Full of wicked comedy and visual absurdism,Will Forte’s apocalyptic show is unafraid of tackling...

why i strip off for my standup show

I’m a woman and a comedian: here are my boobs. Now can I just get on with my jokes please?For a...

popstar: never stop never stopping review -...

SNL alumnus Andy Samberg plays a horribly naff,deluded rapper in this often laughable parody...

golden years review - pensioners turn crims comedy

There are the seeds of something interesting in this cack-handed comedy,but the talent – including...

nina conti review - the audience are the dummies...

Criterion,LondonThe comedian chucks out the art form’s creepiness for a thrilling interactive set...

ab fab and david brent to lead way as british...

BBC television comedy hits heading for the colossal screen after box office success of quality...

transparent: season two trailer - did he call me...

After a wait of more than a year,the smart, unhappy and complex comedy with Jeffrey Tambor and...

how do you direct a standup gig? meet the experts...

On stage there’s just a comedian and a mic. But behind the scenes,directors such as John Gordillo...

harriet lane talks diets and divorces with...

For three decades she was Britain's everywoman,celebrating the ordinary and finding comedy in...

meet alexander graham bell, inventor of the...

Mr. Watson,reach here! I want you to tell me why I withhold showing up in television commercials. Is...

the pajama men review - surreal swashbucklers do...

Cambridge JunctionPickling The Three Musketeers in their loopy imaginations,the storytelling...

miles jupp review - comic retreats to the comfort...

Epsom Playhouse Fury at Britain’s political masters has been replaced by mild tales approximately...

up for love review - short on laughs, but not...

Jean Dujardin does his best as a handsome 4ft 5in architect who falls for a beautiful lawyer,but...

victoria wood remembered: her genius never stopped...

Only Victoria Wood could write a line like: And where has it got you,having a pelvic floor like a...

mike birbiglia review - clean comic gets smutty to...

Lynn Redgrave Theater,New YorkInspired by the Charlie Hebdo attack, the reliably funny comedian’s...

whether it s ali g or tina fey, ironic racism just...

The resurrection of Sacha Baron Cohen’s 20-year-dilapidated alter ego at the Oscars illustrates...

rhys james review - standup with a superiority...

Soho theatre,London[br]The 24-year-ancient comedian is charming and verbally virtuosic sending up...

the kicker: snl head writer builds sports comedy...

Bryan Tucker has paunched a website that promises to inject comedy into sports coverage – and,one...

addicted to fresno review - a killer sex addict...

Pushing the taste envelope with murder japes and rape jokes,this weird sisters comedy slaloms to...

canon and ball: should christianity hold communion...

Veteran comedian Bobby Ball has a unique job teaching vicars how to be silly – but humour and...

doc martin review: if i was cornish i d be cross -...

Doc Martin is a good doctor,but the other residents of Portwenn drop their fish and shopping, fail...

al murray, pub landlord review - pulling punches...

Royal Albert corridor,LondonBrexit gifts the Little Englander a barrel-load of acidic spoofs, but...

bo burnhams make happy review - youtube sensations...

The former teen star’s theatrical shtick is nothing unusual but his mix of music,wit and...

roseanne backs trump. but don t let that put you...

After 20 years,the Conners are back – and still funny. This sitcom may provide that rare space...

keeping up with the joneses review - the mad man...

Jon Hamm and Wonder Woman are the new neighbours in a thin action spoofA pair of staid ((adj.)...

amy schumer review - sex, neuroses and gun control...

Edinburgh PlayhouseShe may be negotiating the stir from everygirl to A-lister,but Schumer is truly...

stewart lees comedy vehicle roars back with more...

Lee’s peevish reaction to being pipped to a Bafta unravels into a rant approximately James Corden...

egos, cameos and flogging cigs to the congo: why...

The misadventures of actor and would-be lothario Steven Toast return for a third series. And it is...

alfie brown review - a standup set of sly charm...

Soho theatre,LondonBrown gives us a show of two halves, with endearing routines about early...

stealing bill cosbys jokes: a standups act of...

Ellen DeGeneres writer Greg Fitzsimmons is using Cosby’s material in his own routines. It’s...

julia davis: gleefully silly, explosively funny...

The star of Nighty Night and Human Remains is one of the scarce few in British comedy who has never...

haters back off review - youtube star makes...

Comedian Colleen Ballinger’s parody (humorous or ridiculous imitation) of an attention-seeking...

the trump card review - mike daiseys cutter...

Woolly Mommoth Theatre,Washington DCThe monologuist is stirring things up again with a unique work...

axis of awesome, nazeem hussain and sara pascoe...

This year’s festival embraces issues that loom large on the progressive agenda. For some,it’s...

comedy bang! bang! its silly, it spoofy - its the...

This faux sketch reveal has talking books,phone-ins about murdering baby animals, celebrity guests...

wayne s world 3: the film fortress hollywood ...

Wannabe writer Trevor Schindeler has been touting his script around Hollywood for the past 23 years...

daddys home review - humiliation in parenting

Will Ferrell and trace Wahlberg star in a formulaic comedy about two wildly different father figures...

sofie hagen review - comical confessions of a...

Soho theatre,LondonThe Edinburgh best newcomer award-winner explores the boyband fan circuit and her...

varietys last hurrah: des oconnor and jimmy...

The jokes were dated and non-PC,the delivery perfectly timed: for one night only, the showbiz...

mum broke our hearts. will sitcoms odd couple bow...

It has made us weep,laugh and scream. As Mum concludes, Lesley Manville and Peter Mullan justify why...

senator al franken does a pitch perfect imitation...

whether Senator Al Franken won’t hasten for President in 2020,perhaps he’d temper fans’...

mum review - lesley manville puts the fun in...

A new sitcom from the Him & Her creator shares the same warmth and subtle characterisation –...

school for standups: let s teach chidren the art...

In this world where we live,there should be more happiness. – so a new search for the nation’s...

a walk in the woods review - undemanding hiking...

Robert Redford and Nick Nolte don backpacks for a wry adaptation of Bill Bryson’s book...

jim davidson cancels lofty gig: when is a stage...

The ‘nick-nick’ comedian,who suffers from vertigo ‘a bit’, refuses to perform from an...

stage rage: when standups heckle back

Live comedy acts are increasingly turning the highlight on audiences for impromptu laughs – but...

brigsby bear review - a picture of ursine...

This story of an oddball being let out into the world succeeds in its character portrayal even as it...

the comedic legacies of dick gregory and jerry...

Two titans of comedy passed absent this weekend,but the deaths of Dick Gregory and Jerry Lewis hold...

learning to drive review - life lessons

Two damaged souls have much to teach each other in this gentle comedy with Ben Kingsley and Patricia...

comedy is starting its own nostalgia industry -...

Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are touring their 90s characters around the UK,and trying to...

harry enfield and paul whitehouse: legends! review...

Brighton CentreA familiar cast of indelible comedian characters and pithy catchphrases imbue the...

the daily show review: trevor noah clears first...

Jon Stewart’s replacement marks his first night behind the desk with some groan-worthy jokes and...

the staff are like gin pouring ninjas: standups...

Comedians including Stephen K Amos,Rachel Parris and Phil Wang choose the venues with the mightiest...

adrienne truscott: nudity is a very inexpensive...

The performance artist-turned-standup on appearing bare from the waist down,male audiences and the...

comedians say case of sued performer is threat to...

Standups say outcome of Louise Reay case could stop people talking approximately personal...

rovers review - big, bouncy football comedy that...

The reunion of The Royle Family stars Craig Cash and Sue Johnston is welcome – but this new sitcom...

comedy is funniest when its set free from labels

Italian company TIDA have made one of the shows of the year with Quintetto. It’s not billed as...

russell kane review - hyperactive tales of...

Marlowe theatre,CanterburyThe Essex comedian’s new dad routine wins no prizes for originality, but...

archer creator adam reed: i wouldn t want the...

As FX’s farcical,sardonic spy cartoon returns, Reed talks about the complications of a exhibit...

what scares you the most about the 2016 election?...

There's nothing unusual about the politics of fear. It's all around us this election...

where next for steve coogans the trip?

Confirmation that Coogan and Rob Brydon will take at least one more TV trip leads us to wonder where...

bakers, eh? theyre so kneady: ringside at the uk...

There were plenty of laughs at the quick-fire punning contest hosted by Lee Nelson,but the maligned...

nick thune review - a standup too cool for...

Soho theatre,London[br]The US comedian’s anecdotes are unstructured, overlong and underpowered, or...

our evil planet kills countless humans every year...

Earth has these ‘natural occurrences’ that devastate homes and villages. But are they really...

guest picks: judah friedlander

On October 21,"30 Rock" star and World Champion Judah Friedlander came by the prove to talk about...

dillie keane on tom lehrer: songs that led me to...

The American singer and songwriter mocked the absurdities of the human condition by using jolly...

finding your feet review - starry cast save creaky...

Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie play sisters forced to live under the same roof in a feelgood but...

my accents ridiculous so its great for comedy:...

Does a regional accent give you a headstart in standup? Are some places funnier than others? Jayde...

a reading of edgar allan poe s the raven in 100...

For every august personage who’s taken a crack Edgar Allan Poe’s evergreen poem,"The...

dire straits walk of life is the perfect song...

It’s tough to conceive of director Stanley Kubrick choosing a more perfect song for Dr....

eddie izzard: force majeure reloaded review -...

Palace theatre,LondonThis magpie tour of human history yields vintage Izzard moments of delightful...

brian logans top 10 comedy of 2015

Bridget Christie was belligerent,Doug Stanhope was savage, and Nish Kumar was reborn a rightwinger....

sarah franken review - smart, scabrous satire, if...

Museum of Comedy,LondonIn this luridly populated demonstrate – her first after becoming a trans...

frankie boyle review - sick jokes used as hand...

Cliffs Pavilion,Southend-on-SeaBoyle delivers his vicious one-liners as palate cleansers between...

the 100 funniest films of all time, according to...

Does comedy come with an expiration date? Scholars of the field both amateur and professional have...

chevalier review - onboard bragging rights

A fishing trip soon turns in to a struggle for supremacy among six male friends in this Greek...

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