Tom Ballard: The World Keeps Happening
29/07/2016 … Twenty-six-year-old Tom Ballard despairs for the current state of political apathy, epitomised by the feeble, lazy ‘clicktivism’ engagement of his entitled…
Fri 29 July 2016
Zoe Coombs Marr: Trigger Warning
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
29/07/2016 … Zoe Coombs Marr’s inventive, intense and insane hour looks set to be the must-see show of the festival: a takedown of tired comedy tropes that spins wildly into…
Alice Fraser: The Resistance
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
29/07/2016 … There’s something almost literary about Alice Fraser’s incisive, dextrous hour of compelling storytelling: the way she brings characters to vivid life, then…
When Shortlist tried to censor Stewart Lee
Magazine didn't want to upset advertisers... or Jack Whitehall
29/07/2016 … Lifestyle magazine Shortlist attempted to censor Stewart Lee for fear he might upset advertisers – or Jack Whitehall.
Street performing... it's all about freedom
Mat Ricardo's monthly dispatch from the world of variety
29/07/2016 … As regular readers will know, I haven't always been the middlingly-successful, reasonably-priced but excellently-attired cabaret schmuck that you see before…
Edinburgh Fringe comedy reviews 2016
The best, and the rest, of the festival
29/07/2016 … Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS) Live On Stage James Acaster: Reset * Louis CK Scott Agnew: I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk .
'Landmark' book deal for Robert Webb
29/07/2016 … Robert Webb is to write his memoirs AND his first novel, following a 'landmark' book deal.