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Pippa Evans

October 2020

  • Cheerful hour … Pippa Evans, musician Yshani Perinpanayagam and Susan Harrison.

    Lockdown culture
    The Yes Queens review – digital crowd pipe in impro oxygen

    Audience participation at arm’s length via screen happily injects some welcome randomness into this six-person improvised sketch show

May 2020

  • Pippa Evans

    The funniest thing
    Pippa Evans: 'The funniest word? Discombobulated, it's how everyone's feeling right now'

    The musical comedian, improviser and composer on the things that make her laugh the most

January 2019

  • Showstopper! at the Other Palace

    Showstopper! The hit musical that's made up every night

    It started as a challenge from Ken Campbell in a squat but Showstopper! The Improvised Musical grew into a West End sensation. The pair behind it tell all

August 2018

  • Jonny Woo’s All Star Brexit Cabaret at the Edinburgh fringe

    Brexit's a joke: Edinburgh fringe's EU comedies

    Britain’s exit from the EU is quicksand for artists as well as politicians. This year, it’s inspired polemical cabaret and a drama that goes nowhere fast

December 2017

  • ComedySportz UK improv workshop

    'Improv saved my life': the comedy classes helping people with anxiety

    Once the domain of aspiring performers, improv courses are increasingly being sought out by students experiencing mental health problems

August 2015

  • Mae Martin.

    'I'll miss your dark embrace': standups' thank-you letters to their fringe venues

  • Pippa Evans

    Edinburgh festival 2015 comedy review – heckling iPods, improv ballads and feminist rap

August 2014

  • Loretta Maine

    Behind the joke
    Pippa Evans: how I invented sozzled singer-songwriter Loretta Maine

    Pippa Evans: Bits of Courtney Love, Alanis Morissette and the deepest, darkest thoughts of yours truly are all sloshing about inside my needy alter ego

January 2014

  • Improvathon with Pippa Evans and others

    Open mic
    Improvathon: the 50-hour comedy marathon that's in it for the long haul

    'After 30 hours without sleep, the performers become too tired to censor themselves' … Plus, Robert Newman's evolution, New Act of the Year and more news on live comedy

July 2013

  • Dylan Moran performing at Latitude festival

    Latitude comedy review: standup takes over the festival

    Huge crowds for sets by Tim Key, Dylan Moran and others show how popular comedy is at music festivals; no wonder standup was spilling out all over the site this year

February 2013

  • The Sunday Assembly

    'Not believing in God makes life more precious': meet the atheist 'churchgoers'

    Queen and Stevie Wonder instead of hymns; a science lecture instead of a sermon. Can church work without belief in God? Esther Addley joins 300 people who say it can

January 2013

  • Pippa Evans

    Laughing stock: the week in comedy
    Atheism gets funny, Victor Lewis Smith accused of joke-theft – and Michael McIntyre breaks box-office records

    Brian Logan: Also in this week's roundup, Billy Connolly and Bill Murray bemoan new comedy, and the controversy surrounding the BBC's assisted-dying sitcom, Way to Go

December 2010

  • Angus Deayton

    Angus Deayton to host Radio 4 show

    Former Have I Got News for You presenter to front It's Your Round, his first major radio comedy series in more than 20 years. By Ben Dowell
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