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Comedy

12 July 2024

  • Brian Logan

    Frightfully funny: is being roared at by a near-naked hardman really comedy?

    Brian Logan
    Testosterone-soaked clowning show Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble spikes the funny with fear – but the hooligan’s knife-edge moments of vulnerability lead us somewhere different
  • Seth Meyers to Democrats: ‘There’s still time to turn things around but Democrats need to choose a path now and start the work of righting the ship.’

    Seth Meyers: ‘Democrats need to choose a path now’

    Late-night hosts discuss the chaos around Joe Biden’s candidacy after some senior Democrats and George Clooney call for a new Democratic nominee
  • Paulina Lenoir in red dress, red gloves and red headpiece on black background

    Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna review – flamenco clown takes us from cradle to grave

    Lenoir’s mischievous charm is infectious, and she plays with skill on the heartstrings and funny bones

11 July 2024

  • Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!

    Oh, Mary! review – Cole Escola’s gloriously deranged historical romp

  • Seth Meyers to Democrats: ‘This melancholy, handwringing, woe is me bullshit is so exhausting.’

    Seth Meyers to Democrats: ‘Don’t just mope around, do something!’

  • Richard Gadd as Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer

    Baby Reindeer reveals the shame and wonder of performing at the Edinburgh fringe

    Georgie Wyatt
  • HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (right), 2022. © SRH / Courtesy Everett Collection<br>2WRAPN2 HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (right), 2022. © SRH / Courtesy Everett Collection

    Hundreds of Beavers review – Gold Rush-style spoof silent comedy fires gags at warp speed

10 July 2024

  • Siubhan Harrison as Lady Sneerwell and Tara Tijani as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal.

    The School for Scandal review – gen Z glow up is all style and no snap

  • Stephen Colbert: “Joe Biden is one day older, but determined to stay in the race.”

    Stephen Colbert on Biden: ‘One day older, but determined to stay in the race’

  • When I was asked to write this column, I did the normal amount of research and read every single previous piece in preparation’: Bec Petraitis.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Bec Petraitis: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

  • Metropolitan police marching in formation

    ‘Highly offensive’: police condemn ITV for naming new comedy show Piglets

9 July 2024

  • man in a suit at a desk on a stage

    Jon Stewart on doubts over Biden’s candidacy: ‘Can’t we open up the conversation?’

  • Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Fly Me To the Moon.

    Fly Me to the Moon review – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy

8 July 2024

  • Mia (Michelle de Swarte) in Spent

    TV review
    Spent review – Michelle de Swarte’s riches-to-rags comedy is astonishing

  • 1927's new show Please Right Back

    Edinburgh festival 2024: 12 tips for families

7 July 2024

  • David Badiel in his office in London

    ‘I have an obsession with authenticity’: David Baddiel on growing up, golf and family affairs

    David Baddiel grew up with an emotionally absent father and a mother having an affair with a golf memorabilia salesman. No wonder he’s written a very funny memoir about it all

5 July 2024

  • Brian Logan

    David Sedaris is an icon of indignation in a world that keeps on irking

    Brian Logan
  • Comedian and author Steph Tisdell at Malabar Beach, NSW.

    Walk with ...
    Steph Tisdell: ‘This year’s for us. This year is about saying we’re still here’

  • Rehearsals for The School for Scandal at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

  • white woman wearing white suit gestures at white woman wearing patterned shirt as a white man wearing a black suit and bowtie looks on

    Rude awakening: when movies change their original NSFW titles

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