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29 July 2024

  • JOSH THOMAS

    ‘People would clap, and I’d feel repulsed’: Josh Thomas on quitting standup – and what brought him back

  • Ian McKellen as Estragon and Patrick Stewart as Vladimir in Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2009.

    The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

28 July 2024

  • A woman in a shiny jacket takes a picture with her mobile phone of comedian Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes, with long braided hair and in a jacket, jeans and backpack, pointing at the poster "Sikisa: Life of the party" and grinning

    ‘They’re dumb – but I want to win’: comedians tell of the highs and lows of the Edinburgh fringe awards

    Awards generate a buzz and are motivating but the pressure to be nominated and the disappointment are intense

27 July 2024

  • Katherine Ryan<br>Katherine Louisa Ryan is a Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actress based in the United Kingdom

    This much I know
    Katherine Ryan: ‘My love language is intimacy. That’s what my comedy is about’

    The comedian, 41, talks about parents, children, her hot blonde cheerleader days and not lying about her love of money
  • Michelle Shaughnessy dressed as a dancer

    ‘It was the first time I wasn’t obsessed with food’: comedians mine Ozempic trend for laughs at Edinburgh fringe

    Female comics will confront body dysmorphia by turning the mirror on themselves and then back on society
  • Collage of Madonna and Sandra Bernhard; The Wizard of Oz; Queer as Folk; Kenny Everett; Edward Scissorhands

    Loud and queer: Gareth Thomas, Rosie Jones and more on the culture that helped them find their true selves

    From a rugby great to a former MP, LGBTQ stars spill the beans on the shows, songs and films that made them understand their identity

26 July 2024

  • The cast of Shrek the Musical

    Shrek the Musical review – sludgy show leaves you green about the gills

    Played at the volume of a pantomime, this makeover of the fairytale favourite is flatly unadventurous
  • A man wearing a navy suit and glasses stands in front of a city backdrop with his arms raised

    Stephen Colbert on Joe Biden’s address: ‘Poignant, sincere and exactly what the country needed’

    Late-night hosts discuss Biden’s speech on stepping aside, Kamala Harris brat memes and Melania Trump’s memoir

    • ‘Selina was not modelled on Harris’: Iannucci on how US presidential race came to mirror Veep

    • ‘People always ask – can she have sex?’: the stars of TV’s racy, hilarious new disability comedy

    • Play time
      Rough Magic review – zany riff on Macbeth bewitches young audience

25 July 2024

  • Stephen Colbert on JD Vance’s style on the stump: ‘Like a groom who invited only co-workers to his bachelor party’.

    Stephen Colbert on JD Vance: ‘Why the hell did Trump pick him?’

  • This image released by Bleecker Street shows, from left, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Bette Midler in a scene from "The Fabulous Four." (Bleecker Street via AP)

    The Fabulous Four review – starry cast deserves better in silly, simplistic comedy

24 July 2024

  • Man wearing glasses, suit, and tie talks to camera on a television set

    Stephen Colbert to Trump: ‘If you want to steal Biden’s thunder, all you have to do is drop out’

    Late-night hosts discuss fundraising rush behind Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and Trump’s response to Biden exiting the race
  • ‘I have tried to be very careful with social media’ … Betty Grumble.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Betty Grumble: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    The performance artist and ‘sex clown’ shares her list of (mostly) wholesome clips: the cutest children, the best dog and the glitziest aerobics workout

    • Pass notes
      Eggs, bacon, banter: the Scottish hotel trying to make breakfast the funniest meal of the day

    • Fangirls review – sugar rush musical turns a teen crush criminal

    • Edinburgh festival 2024: six of the funniest comedians at the fringe

23 July 2024

  • Stephen Colbert on Joe Biden: ‘You don’t see that everyday: courage, grace, humility, true patriotism. I will tell you one thing: that guy would make a great president.’

    Stephen Colbert on Biden dropping out: ‘Courage, grace, humility, true patriotism’

  • Fatma Aydemir

    When a bad Trump joke becomes an affair of state, Germany has lost more than its sense of humour

    Fatma Aydemir
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