Bonnie & Clive review – cheerfully ridiculous Covid road trip
Bonnie has two days to get from south London to her grandparents’ house in Cornwall before lockdown in this super low budget British comedyNo offence to any Clives reading, but…
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Nish Kumar
‘I should not be allowed to do interviews’: Nish Kumar on courting controversy and clashing with comics
The former Mash Report star’s latest show takes aim at his manosphere-courting, Saudi comedy festival-attending peers. Could he be the angry progressive standup we need right now?Nish Kumar – mop…
US television
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times
After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is headingThe applause, dear God, the applause.…
Lifestyle
‘The Sheep Detectives’: a baa-rilliant mix of humour, mystery and heart
Within an idyllic English village lies a tangled murder mystery, as a late shepherd’s flock proves surprisingly adept at detective work.
Make That Movie review – Sam Campbell has made the funniest TV show of the entire year
The Last One Laughing and Taskmaster star’s supremely daft mockumentary is so hilarious it deserves to be paraded around the streets. Hopefully it can run and run This is a…
The Breadwinner review – Nate Bargatze’s dated dad comedy loses us entirely
The comedian makes an unconvincing bid for movie stardom in a largely unfunny and old-fashioned feature-length sitcom episodeThe popular standup comedian Nate Bargatze uses his appealingly deadpan demeanor to convey…
Power Ballad review – Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd star in terrific comedy of bromance and betrayal
Irish writer-director John Carney brilliantly brings together Rudd’s washed up wedding-singer and Jonas’s insecure ex-boyband superstarOnce again, Irish writer-director John Carney delivers an aspartame rush of enjoyment with this terrific…
Alan Davies
‘There were bad moments and bad behaviour’: Alan Davies on booze, ego, comedy and cancer
At 60, Davies is less of a hell-raiser than he once was – but a great deal happier. He talks about the excesses of the 90s, the sexual abuse that…
Books
Ben Elton: ‘I was the biggest comic in Britain – now Netflix doesn’t want me’
Comedian and writer Ben Elton on staying close to his famous friends and why he turned down dinner with Margaret Thatcher
Theatre
Thespians review – world’s first actor gets comic kudos from Mischief’s merrymakers
Mercury theatre, ColchesterThis musical from the company behind The Play That Goes Wrong unearths the invention of acting in ancient Greece – and finds little has changedThe Mischief theatre company…
Comedy
Edinburgh Fringe 2026: Here are all of the SNL UK cast members and writers you can see at this year’s festival
Here is every SNL UK cast member and writer who will appear at the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Stage
Fatiha El-Ghorri: Cockney Stacking Doll review – Taskmaster star’s endearing, earthy tour of the East End
Leicester Square theatre, LondonThe comic delivers gags about her life and neighbourhood with choice descriptions and brutal punchlines‘What comes out of here,” says Fatiha El-Ghorri, indicating her mouth, “and this”…