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Comedy

4 September 2024

  • man on stage behind a desk with a photo of trump

    Seth Meyers on Donald Trump: ‘He’s just getting weirder’

    Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s devolving logic, the Arlington cemetery scandal and JD Vance’s unpopularity
  • Bec Charlwood, Australian comedian

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

    This comedian pays homage to peak internet (circa 2000-2014), with classics including Cole Hersch, Charlie the Unicorn and a parody song about incels
  • Jim Dale and Valerie Leon in Carry on Again Doctor.

    ‘We didn’t worry about a few dirty laughs!’ The Carry On women on playing nags, bra-burners and ‘crumpet’

    No one could say that the Carry On movies stretched their female stars, or paid them generously. But, decades later, Amanda Barrie, Valerie Leon, Sheila Hancock and co have fond memories

3 September 2024

  • Perfect balance … Gordon (Patrick Brammall) and Ash (Harriet Dyer) in Colin from Accounts

    TV review
    Colin from Accounts season two review – the smash-hit Aussie comedy is better than ever

    This series about a couple bonding over an injured dog maintains the perfect blend of hard-edged laughs and genuine emotion. It’s an absolute joy to watch

2 September 2024

  • Comedian Michelle Brasier at home.

    Michelle Brasier on turning cancer into comedy – and kicking her life into overdrive

  • Man stands in front of chalkboard in classroom

    TV review
    English Teacher review – promising high school comedy has work to do

1 September 2024

  • Gerard McCabe leans against the shoulder of Shaun Blaney, as they both shine torches into the dark, in Stones in His Pockets.

    Stones in His Pockets review – immersive revival of the rural Ireland film shoot tragicomedy

    Barn theatre, Cirencester
    Marie Jones’s 1996 hit play is given a spectacular, Hollywood-style makeover by her son Matthew McElhinney, though the momentum of the drama suffers
  • Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean

    It’s the way they sell ’em: standups across UK turn to merchandise for extra cash

    Edinburgh fringe acts and theatres are taking a cue from the music business with the sale of branded items to boost profits
  • Andrew Scott in Vanya.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Andrew Scott’s Vanya and an Othello with three Iagos

    The Fleabag star delivers a bravura solo version of Chekhov’s classic, plus new perspectives on Shakespeare and a starry Rodgers and Hammerstein hoedown

31 August 2024

  • Alan Cumming.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Alan Cumming’s cultural highlights

    The actor and writer on South African gospel reworkings of house classics, a beautiful Scottish LGBTQ+ magazine, and his obsession with pressure washing
  • Autumn Preview Film

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    From Charli XCX and Van Gogh to Gladiator 2: the best culture to go out and see this autumn

    The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness still offers plenty of excuses to leave the house. Our critics offer their odes to the season’s best film, theatre, dance, art, comedy and music. Expect a bumper harvest of culture
  • Romesh Ranganathan wearing a denim shirt over a white T-shirt and dark jeans, against a pink background

    The Q&A
    Romesh Ranganathan: ‘My greatest fear? My children ending up anything like me’

    The actor and comedian on rants he regrets, his gross grooming habits and being vegetarian at KFC

30 August 2024

  • Susan Wokoma, Aisling Bea, Omari Douglas and Billie Lourd in And Mrs

    ‘You laugh the hardest in grief’: And Mrs, the cathartic romcom about marrying your dead fiance

    Finding the funny side of bereavement may be taboo, but Colin Hanks and director Daniel Reisinger hope their new film starring Aisling Bea will help to change that

28 August 2024

  • Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton sequel takes retro joyride through old haunts

    Burton’s game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original
  • Winnie Dunn

    The funniest things on the internet
    Winnie Dunn: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    A list from a writer who has been on the internet since we all had cheezburger, spanning Tongan dad TikToks to Bassem Youssef v Piers Morgan
  • Corpse bride … Aisling Bea in And Mrs.

    And Mrs review – love never dies for Aisling Bea in barmy Brit romcom

    This Richard Curtis-like comedy sees Bea on fine form as she tries to marry her her dead boyfriend, supported by a knockout cast including Harriet Walter and Susan Wokoma

27 August 2024

  • From left to right; The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, Natalie Palamides, Why Am I So Single? Writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

  • Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short in Only Murders in the Building

    TV review
    Only Murders in the Building season four review – by far the funniest thing on TV

26 August 2024

  • Michael Billington

    Sir Ken Dodd’s new ‘happiness centre’ tickles me but should be taken seriously

    Michael Billington
  • Convivial and cartoonishly animated … Larry Dean.

    Larry Dean: Dodger review – crowd-pleasing gags with a tender twist in the tale

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