The Comeback: the farce with James Corden, Catherine Tate and Stephen Fry on board
If you’d positioned a wager on which comedians would someday open their new farce in the West End – a
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Comedy
Saved by the Bell review – self-aware reboot isn’t quite smart enough
If Seinfeld was the present about nothing, Saved by the Bell and different programming of its early-90s after-school ilk aspired
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‘He was a radical’: John Belushi remembered by his wife and fellow comics
Can you disentangle the lifetime of John Belushi from his tragic demise? Has he left a comedian legacy – or
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TV style icons of 2020: how Friends’ Ross Geller pivoted from sartorial disaster
The first time I watched Friends, there was a transparent style hierarchy among the many male characters. Gunther, Joey, Chandler,
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Sarah Cooper: ‘Trump has bigger fish to fry than me’
You would possibly assume the one kind of one that will get well-known on TikTok is a youngster caked in
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‘Tis the season for solo pantos: Cinderella and co are going it alone
‘The length of each act should be the length of a child’s bladder,” Polly Lister laughs. “You never want it
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Tim Minchin review – bittersweet musings from comedy’s Mr Marmite
Reactions to Tim Minchin have all the time been excessive: you both discover him sensible, or pompous, or infuriatingly mannered.
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Panto in a pandemic: honks not hisses and an unprecedented cow
Iain Lauchlan has been placing on panto in Coventry for nearly 30 years. Whenever he begins rehearsals, the author, director
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Happiest Season review – queer Christmas comedy is a festive treat
The displacement of theatrical releases in the course of the pandemic, pressured into an typically complicated digital netherworld, has meant
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The joy of messing up: in praise of the TV blooper reel
When lockdown 1.0 was lifted, one of the first issues I did was get rid of all the DVD field
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