‘Touch by Little Mix might be the greatest pop song of the 21st century’: Phil Wang’s honest playlist
The comedian grew up on the Righteous Brothers and Shaggy, and loves energy-supplier hold music. But what does he think is the song of the century?
July 2023
Brighton Comedy Garden review – Rose Matafeo and Phil Wang are in fine form as they battle the gulls
Matafeo offers up heartbreak hilarity and Wang brings his dad jacket to the charming outdoor event with the nastiest hecklers on the south coast
May 2023
Phil Wang review – all kinds of funny from the super-droll standup
In a quietly confident show with gags from the sophisticated to the stupid, the comic is consistently enjoyable
April 2023
Life on a plate
Phil Wang: ‘Tarantula, centipede … I’d eat them again before I eat a baked salmon’
The comedian has strong opinions on prawns and eggs, has difficulties with bananas but otherwise he’s … voracious
December 2022
Brief letters
Stories of the things we leave behind
The Q&A
Phil Wang: ‘How would I like to be remembered? As the man who solved nuclear fusion’
August 2022
Phil Wang review – an irresistible set of smart and silly jokes
Part observational, part autobiographical, The Real Hero in All This considers life from ever-surprising angles
July 2022
Edinburgh festival 2022: 50 shows to see
Phil Wang makes a heroic return, Ian McKellen stars in a balletic Hamlet and Sophie Duker is gleefully carefree. Here are our picks of the festival’s comedy, theatre and dance
September 2021
The joy of small things
‘The ground is unstable but there are pleasures all around’ – goodbye to the joy of small things
For three years, this column has been looking for sources of quotidian joy in the darkness. As it comes to an end, what tiny delights would other writers nominate?
August 2021
Phil Wang: ‘It was a shock to find out how Asian I was’
Phil Wang review – standup’s Netflix special skewers PC panic, Covid racism and himself
July 2021
Lockdown living
Lockdown reawakened my childhood love of chess. Now I can’t do anything else
Phil Wang
The alert I get when an opponent has made their move gives me the shot of excitement I used to get from social media notifications
April 2020
'I crack up every time': comedians' all-time favourite standup routines
Sunday with Phil Wang: ‘I’m a homebody, really’
August 2019
Phil Wang review – record-breaking riffs on sex, race and Popeye
Wang is back with a new no-messing, harder-nosed attitude, along with excellent jokes including some choice one-liners
June 2019
Edinburgh festival 2019: 50 theatre, comedy and dance shows to see
Edinburgh fringe 2019: 12 of the best shows
January 2019
A new start
A new start: Phil Wang on how a coffee grinder with 12 settings changed his life
The standup bought himself the appliance to escape the yoke of big bean and find grownup enlightenment. All he learned was that he doesn’t like the stuff
December 2017
2017 in satire: inside Jeremy Corbyn's trophy cabinet
'Chinese burn? We just say burn': comics on joking about race and immigration
