Leicester Comedy festival review – gags, groans and heckling gremlins
Felicity Ward and Tony Law star in the event’s opening cabaret, First Night Funnies, with false starts and flat-out laughs
June 2019
Kill Climate Deniers review – eco-warriors turn up the heat
David Finnigan’s bold play about protesters who take an environment minister hostage is stalled by metatheatrics
November 2018
The funniest thing
Felicity Ward: ‘When I was nine I was certain an undercut would change my social standing'
The Australian standup and Radio 4 regular on the things that make her laugh the most
August 2018
Felicity Ward: Busting a Nut review – a jumble sale of jokes
'After 15 minutes, my audience walked out': standups on their Edinburgh debuts
October 2016
Open mic
Not heard the one about the Queen: why don't comedians criticise the monarchy?
It’s the job of standups to hold institutions to account – laugh by laugh – so why aren’t more of them laying bare the anachronistic daftness of the royal family?
September 2016
Autumn arts preview 2016
The deranged Dutchman is coming! The finest comedy of autumn 2016
Brexit, starting over, a honey-selling scam and karaoke with chickens … these are the concerns of the big names in comedy this autumn
August 2016
Comedians on meeting their hecklers: ‘I ran upstairs and hid in a cupboard’
Sarah Kendall, Mark Watson, Alexei Sayle and other standups recall what happened when they came face to face with their toughest critics after a show
