Racism is inherent in comedy - we need to acknowledge that
04/07/2022 … Comedy’s power is its licence to say the unsayable.
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04/07/2022 … Comedy’s power is its licence to say the unsayable.
01/07/2022 … I am pro-choice, especially when it comes to comedy.
28/06/2022 … Being a stand-up comedian can actually take you down a lot of unexpected career paths.
13/06/2022 … Spike Milligan’s post-apocalyptic dark comedy The Bed Sitting Room has not been performed on stage for almost 40 years.
07/06/2022 … Every August, thousands of comedians, theatre productions and the rest all fight to get noticed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
26/05/2022 … It’s a summer evening in Derry in 1997, the night before four teenage girls and a wee English fella get their GCSE results.
01/05/2022 … Though Gilbert Gottfried’s voice has alternatively been described as 'shrill', 'annoying' and 'grating', you can’t…
18/04/2022 … Just how serious is Easter? For non-churchgoers (like myself) with a sweet tooth (guilty, again) the answer to this question is probably: not very, although the…
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