Comedy
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Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones: ‘The US is the most depressed nation in the world and I blame comedians’
She’s a 6ft ball of energy who slogged away on the comedy circuit for 25 years before landing Saturday Night Live and then Ghostbusters. She talks about wanting to be the new Eddie Murphy and why ‘crazy-wild-big’ laughs matter -
All the late-night shows have tried to lampoon a certain Republican nominee, but when real-life TV feels stranger than fiction, does satire fall flat?
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She advised Ed Miliband and wrote gags for Harriet Harman. Now Ayesha Hazarika is turning her heady Whitehall days into standup
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Comedians tend to apologise for making any highbrow references in their material. I wish more felt at ease quoting poetry like Liam Williams
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Jeremy Corbyn, pervy sexual tension, tiny horned hamsters... improv comedy star Greg Proops is used to chucking anything into the mix. As he begins a London run of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, he reveals the show’s secret sauce
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Will Adamsdale, Lloyd Hutchinson and Brian Logan find themselves trapped inside a gag in a piece that pays homage to the theatrical imagination
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From Garbage to Funny Girls, the comedian reveals the things she finds the funniest
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Nothing is out of bounds in Baddiel’s new standup, which exposes his father’s dementia and his mother’s hyperactive sex life to the same affectionate scrutiny
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As the Broadway star Fanny Brice, famously played by Barbra Streisand, Smith draws cheers, tears and gets a laugh out of every single line
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From Eddie Murphy to illiterate hecklers, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the most
Topics
- Comedy (Culture)
- Television
- Festivals
- Theatre
- Edinburgh festival
- Sara Pascoe
- Edinburgh festival 2016
- Comedy (Television & radio)
- James Acaster
- US politics
- Saturday Night Live
- Louis CK
- US television
- David Baddiel
- Flight of the Conchords
- Henning Wehn
- Canada
- Gloria De Piero
- Laurie Anderson
- Sarah Millican
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