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Dane Baptiste

July 2023

  • Dane Baptiste

    Comedy Q&A
    Dane Baptiste: ‘My body likes to cleanse itself before telling dirty jokes’

    The comedian on getting old, festival toilets and British standups’ failure to talk about inequality

December 2022

  • Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/Getty

    Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Why has British comedy got a problem with race? Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

    Last week Bo’ Selecta creator Leigh Francis risked reigniting his feud with Craig David by saying the singer should stop talking about being mocked on the programme because it was 20 years ago. Chanté talks to comedian Dane Baptiste about why British comedy has a problem with depictions of race.

March 2022

  • Commands the attention… Dane Baptiste.

    Dane Baptiste: The Chocolate Chip review – potent polemic and fine jokes

    In a serious-minded comedy show, with a splash of frivolity, the standup considers politics, class and racism

August 2021

  • Cush Jumbo plays Hamlet, Mae Martin and Simon Amstell.

    Autumn arts preview 2021
    Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021

    Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage

May 2021

  • Dane Baptiste, comedian and writer Credit Yoshitaka Kono Image from Anastasia Roe <anastasia@mbcpr.com>

    NextUp Relaunch Party review – Dane Baptiste and Josie Long back at the mic

    Seven comedians, including Priya Hall and Chloe Petts, marked the reopening of theatres with some slick live sets

August 2020

  • Olga Koch stars in the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society cabaret.

    Lockdown culture
    Forecast is funny: the best comedy shows to stream this summer

    The Edinburgh fringe may have been cancelled but there are plenty of online gigs to enjoy featuring Dane Baptiste, Ivo Graham, Sarah Millican and more

June 2020

  • Frankie Boyle

    Lockdown culture
    Comedy at the Covid Arms review – the perfect formula for lockdown standup

  • Coming to the Covid Arms … Frankie Boyle.

    Lockdown culture
    Lockdown laughs: where to watch online comedy

January 2020

  • From left: Jessica Chastain, Cush Jumbo, Timothée Chalamet, Testmatch, Back to the Future.

    2020 culture preview
    Star debuts and happy returns: theatre, dance and comedy in 2020

    Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery

February 2018

  • Dane Baptiste, Shappi Khorsandi and Bill Bailey

    Standups on tour: ‘Why have I left my kids to stay in a rat-infested garret?’

    How do comics survive life on the road? They rob their minibars, turn roadies into bird-watchers – and read The Da Vinci Code

August 2017

  • Katy Brand, Dane Baptiste, Romesh Ranganathan, Cally Beaton and Sofie Hagen.

    From scissor attacks to diabetes improv: comedians' weirdest gigs

    Lucy Porter caused a breakup. Romesh Ranganathan did a diabetes panel show. And Clive Anderson was attacked with scissors. Comics relive their worst moments on stage

June 2017

  • Composite: Comedy summer preview 2017: Rob Delaney, Sara Pascoe, Bourgeois & Maurice, Sam Simmonds and Penn & Teller

    Summer arts preview 2017
    The must-see standup of summer 2017: Daniel Kitson, Sara Pascoe, Rob Delaney and more

    The star of Catastrophe brings carnality, the elusive Kitson attempts to ‘alter language’, Sara Pascoe goes dating, while Hannah Gadsby goes out with a bang

January 2017

  • Composite: comedians James Acaster, Felicity Ward and Dane Baptiste

    Seriously funny: the new comedy agents steering standups' careers

    An alternative style of artist management is helping talents such as James Acaster and Dane Baptiste take a long-game approach. Rule No 1? Be nice
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    Unmissable culture of 2017
    Laughing gear: the best live comedy to start 2017

    Hilarity to come this year includes Bridget Christie battering Brexit, Sue Perkins’ post-Bake Off trip to Leicester comedy festival and a breathtaking bout of escapology
  • Mrs Brown's Boys

    Open mic
    Move over Mrs Brown: comedians prefer Alan Partridge and Fawlty Towers

    Gold TV has polled the professionals about their favourite comedy. But even the funniest of the funny can’t easily be reduced to scenes and one-liners

December 2016

  • Cariad Lloyd, Adam Buxton and Sara Pascoe

    Open mic
    Dead funny: what comedy brings to the experience of grief

    In her podcast, Cariad Lloyd talks to other comics about death, a subject that standups rarely deal with directly on stage

November 2016

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    Stream on
    Sunny D – Dane Baptiste's sitcom is dizzyingly hilarious

  • Sunny D, TV show

    TV & radio catch up guide
    Catch-up and download: From Sunny D to StartUp

October 2016

  • The world is mime … Sam Wills, AKA The Boy With Tape on His Face.

    Open mic
    America's Got Talent: the new route to stardom for Britain's fringe favourites

    After the success of Tape Face and Piff the Magic Dragon, purveyors of overlooked artforms might do well to swap panel-heavy British comedy for the States

September 2016

  • Composite image of Student survival guide

    The Guide's student special
    Protests, partying and perfect hangover cures: an alternative student survival guide

    Want to win at uni? Our panel of experts including Owen Jones, Years & Years, Lady Leshurr and Julie Adenuga show you how
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