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Tim Harding on some comedy works-in-progress, and the musical talents of Jazz Emu
29/06/2024 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the best comedy he's been watching in London this past fortnight.
Sat 29 June 2024
© dimitrisvetsikas1969/Pixabay The best version of football...
29/06/2024 … Tweets of the week A friend is just a stranger you haven't lost touch with yet — Andy Field (@andyfieldhello) June 26, 2024 For me the best…
Tories are beyond satire... but I still gave it a go
Joe Venable on writing a Rishi Sunak musical in the space of just a month
29/06/2024 … Is there any point to this? I asked myself that a lot, when I set out to write a satirical musical about Rishi Sunak’s election campaign.
© Life, Love, and Pop-Culture/CC BY-SA 3.0 US comedy actor Martin Mull dies at 80
Credits include Roseanne, Veep and Arrested Development
29/06/2024 … American actor and comedian Martin Mull – whose credits include Roseanne, Veep and Arrested Development has died at the age of 1980.
Fri 28 June 2024
Exhibition to celebrate the history of comedy in the North East
Curators appeal for more memorabilia
28/06/2024 … The rich history of comedy in North East England is to be celebrated in an exhibition this summer.
© Michelle Huggleston Photography We need satire more than ever... so where is it?
Robin Morgan says TV should be using comedy to connect to voters turned off by politics
28/06/2024 … I grew up watching topical comedy on TV – Mock The Week was the gateway to watching live stand-up comedy, but before that, I remember watching Have I Got News…
© Marc Brenner Armando Iannucci’s Pandemonium tour cancelled
...and it's all Rishi Sunak's fault
28/06/2024 … A planned tour of Armando Iannucci’s satire of the government’s Covid response has been axed because of the general election.
Thu 27 June 2024
© ITV/Hartswood Films Douglas Is Cancelled
Review of Steven Moffat's timely comedy-drama with Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillen
27/06/2024 … Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive.