Sunday with Lou Sanders: ‘A fireside pub table for games – Bananagrams, Scrabble’
The comic snuggles her cats, goes to gymnastics, squeals in delight at vegan Yorkshire puddings
October 2023
Comedian Lou Sanders: ‘It blows my mind that people still don’t want to believe women’
Off the heels of publishing a memoir, the star of Taskmaster and Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable discusses unhappy readers, deleting Twitter, and outing Russell Brand
March 2022
Lou Sanders review – endearingly daft tales of a rackety life
The standup rallies from backstage illness to deliver a show about love, fear and roller skating
February 2022
Honest playlist
‘The song I want played at my funeral? SexyBack’: Lou Sanders’s honest playlist
The watcher
Unforgivable: Missing Taskmaster? Cheeky schoolmarm Mel Giedroyc has just the thing
July 2021
Reopening culture
Brighton Comedy Garden review – David O’Doherty brings the fireworks
Lou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O’Doherty’s delightful stream of consciousness the highlight
February 2021
Lockdown culture
Comedians Telling Erotic Stories review – first snogs, orgies and a come-on from Boris
Rachel Fairburn’s showcase aroused funny bones, if not G-spots, with Shappi Khorsandi, Lou Sanders and Will Duggan
December 2019
A special thankyou
Thank you to ... my ex-boyfriend, who is kind to his very core
Lou Sanders thanks Nick, who made her a better person – and taught her to share cake
October 2019
Lou Sanders review – feminism, desire and a 12-month 'man ban'
Sanders is genial company in her new hour, Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy, but this isn’t a big-hitting show
February 2019
My funny valentine: standups on their most disastrous dates
A night in a cemetery, a trip to a strip club, five hours in A&E … comics relive their woeful romantic rendezvous
December 2018
A new start
A new start: Lou Sanders on the moment a friend called out her negativity
A few home truths helped save the standup from a lifetime of misery
September 2018
Lou Sanders: Shame Pig review – lurid gags from the comedians' comedian
With a litany of eyebrow-raising anecdotes about outrageous social faux pas, the standup makes for terrific company
February 2018
The funniest thing
Lou Sanders: ‘I took a friend to a breast cancer op, all told it was a great day out’
The writer, standup and actor on the things that make her laugh the most
May 2017
A moment that changed me
A moment that changed me: realising, aged 16, that I couldn’t handle alcohol
Lou Sanders
I did drink quite a bit more after that. But that night in Alicante was the first inkling I had that my relationship with alcohol was a dangerous one
August 2016
'Booed off in 17 seconds' – comedians recall their first gigs
Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she’d walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?
May 2015
Comedy heroes
Lou Sanders on Tina Fey – no one is safe from her lovable rudeness
From Saturday Night Live to 30 Rock and the Golden Globes, the mischievous comedy star ridicules women, men, kids, dogs – but in a caring, sharing way
