It is 17 years since Deborah Moggach’s novel These Foolish Things introduced us to an eclectic bunch of pensioners finding a new lease of life on a journey to India. The best-selling book became a hit film under new name The Best Exotic...
In difficult times we can all do with a laugh to lighten our spirits. And the Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize is offering £10,000 for a winning comedy script. The competition, now in its fourth year, is the second largest national playwriting...
Britain’s Got Talent Golden Buzzer comedian KOJO ANIM ahead of his 26-date debut solo tour Kojo Anim became the comedy sensation of Britain’s Got Talent 2019, when Simon Cowell used his golden buzzer to send the 39-year-old straight into the semi...
Following his return to the Edinburgh Fringe after six long years, comedian Nick Helm is back on tour to remind the world of what they’ve been missing. He talks to Brian Donaldson: Always a man who likes an incendiary show title, Phoenix From The...
Comedian, Abigoliah Schamaun grew up in mid-West America before moving to New York and then London. Her intelligent, topical and thought-provoking show, Do You Know Who I Think I Am? looks at the differences between how American’s ask for things (‘I...
‘A bunch of clowns trying to do the impossible,’ is how Dylan Emery describes Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. It’s an insanely ambitious show he co-founded with Adam Megiddo in 2008, and soon became a must-see staple of the Edinburgh Fringe...
Billed as a ‘comedy adventure’, I imagined ‘The Three Musketeers’, to be a side-splitting, sword-fighting romp through the French countryside with three, soon to be four, Musketeers in velvet costumes and plumed hats. Le Navet Bete’s...
Did you hear the one about the Jew and the Muslim who met in a comedy club? They became friends. And while traditionally the descendants of Abraham may have gone their separate ways, stand-up comedians, Ashley Blaker and Imran Yusuf are uniting as a...
YouTube comedy favourites, Foil Arms & Hog met at University College Dublin while studying architecture, engineering and genetics. Then the financial crash led them to pursue the noble art of being downright silly. And it’s paying off...
Former EastEnders star and Celebrity MasterChef winner, John Partridge and Olivier Award nominee, Charlie Stemp tells us about their new roles in Bill Kenwright’s brand-new production of Tom Stoppard’s comedy, Rough Crossing. What’s Rough Crossing...