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”…
Theatre
‘It’s showtime!’ Beetlejuice musical is a rave from the grave – in pictures
Tim Burton’s hit 1988 comedy horror is enjoying an all-singing, all-dancing afterlife on stage. After recent productions in the US and Australia, the musical opens in London this month. We…
Kim Noble
‘I want to bury it under a roundabout!’ Kim Noble on his unusual approach to promoting his graphic novel
The unsettling performance artist, who has made some electrifying stage shows in his time, is taking a leap into literature with an eye-opening book, In Pursuit of a Wonderful Nothing.…
TV comedy
‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar
Having enjoyed breakout fame on Taskmaster and Last One Laughing, the subversive Australian comic has been handed the reins of his own, very strange sitcom. Get ready for feet animations…
Comedy
Put away the dictionary. It’s spelling bee time!
Know your way around a homonym? Nah, me neither but come in and have a crack at our Sunday quiz anyway.
Comedy
Stephen Colbert Closed Out The Late Show by Doing What He Does Best
In his final episodes, the late-night host’s greatest asset wasn’t his comedy. It was something else.
Boots Riley
Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’
The outspoken musician and film-maker talks I Love Boosters, his colorful follow-up to 2018 hit Sorry to Bother You, and the criticisms of his partnership with an EllisonDon’t call Boots…
Television
‘Messy, chaotic, funny’: inside the hilarious comedy about teen Muslim schoolgirls
Proper Ladies is being compared to Derry Girls for its portrayal of a wild but relatable girl gang. Its creator opens up about trying to reshape the way Black and…
Stage
Churchill’s Urinal review – Rosie Holt’s pisstake chancellor turns it up to No 11
King’s Head theatre, London An office toilet once used by the wartime PM sparks a culture war in this frenzied show about politics and patriarchyWhen Rachel Reeves became chancellor in…
Comedy
John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills review – a handful of dust (and prawn cocktail crisps) in riff on TS Eliot
The Crescent, YorkThe comedian addresses a relationship breakup via The Waste Land, Aldi and a dimwit estate agentHow has it come to this? That’s what new show Tilting at Windmills…
Theatre
I’m Not Being Funny review – there’s laughter through tears in emotional dark comedy
Bush theatre, LondonMarried aspiring standups confront on stage what they’re concealing in real life, in Piers Black’s compelling two-handerStandup is performance in extremis, self-projection in the raw – and has…
Comedy
Munya Chawawa on making jokes as the world collapses – podcast
The comedian Munya Chawawa on satire in the age of social media and what Donald Trump has in common with wrestlersEven if you don’t know Munya Chawawa’s name, you will…
Stage
A leak at No 11: Rachel Reeves and the satire about the urinal she couldn’t get rid of
When she broke through the glass ceiling and became chancellor, Reeves found her office had its own latrine. Rosie Holt reveals why she turned the story into a play called…
Stage
Michael Spicer: ‘Monty Python taught me that authority figures must earn our respect’
The Room Next Door star on overnight success, ‘sneaky follows’ from politicians and how internet commenting has dragged society downHow did you get into comedy?I was submitting sketches to Spitting…