'It's basically a stupid face and noise...'
Joe Lycett chooses his comedy favourites
02/08/2013 … DomesticThis little beaut from YouTubers Hammonday was the hardest I've laughed at anything on the internet.
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Fri 02 August 2013
Thu 01 August 2013
Crappy superheroes and crazy schemes...
Colin Hoult chooses his comedy favourites
01/08/2013 … Barton Fink I love a lot of the Coen Brothers films, although oddly I'm not that mad on their out-and-out comedies like Big Lebowski.
Wed 31 July 2013
'Haunting and hypnotic'
George Ryegold creator Toby Williams shares his comedy favourites
31/07/2013 … There is so much great comedy I could go on about here: Harold Lloyd, Porridge, Rising Damp, Doctor In Clover and Chorlton & The Wheelies to name but a very, very…
Tue 30 July 2013
Partridge in a pickle
Jay Richardson reviews Alpha Papa
30/07/2013 … The received wisdom for transferring television comedies to cinema is to try to make the laughs bigger and louder, perhaps ramp up the nudity or the swearing, while…
'Opie and Anthony are the new Johnny Carson'
Brendon Burns chooses his comedy favourites
30/07/2013 … Reverend Brown and Randy Watson Legendary Entertainer from Coming to AmericaIt's going to become apparent that I'm a big fan of black American comedy and stage death.
Mon 29 July 2013
'He made me realise that comedy could change perceptions'
Sean Hughes chooses his comedy favourites
29/07/2013 … Richard PryorRichard Pryor is the reason I became a stand-up, so he will always be my favourite comic of all time.
Fri 26 July 2013
'It's real life; but just not quite'
26/07/2013 … David Walliams’s new sitcom Big School – which he both stars in and co-wrote with The Dawson Brothers – starts on BBC One next month, with an ensemble cast…
10. Never knowingly oversold
Edinburgh 10 x10: Ten offputting blurbs
26/07/2013 … OK, some of these are deliberately offputting or underplayed as a double-bluff, but these are not exactly well-sold.