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Shaparak Khorsandi

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music

September 2023

  • ‘I don’t puke before every gig any more so in that sense I have grown’ … Esther Manito.

    Comedy Q&A
    Esther Manito: ‘I still stand backstage thinking I should have worked in John Lewis’

    The standup on her comedy heroes, preshow jitters and the parenting double standards for male and female comedians

May 2022

  • ‘I had a crush on Mark Steel. I can say that now as he is my beau’ … Shaparak Khorsandi.

    Comedy Q&A
    Shaparak Khorsandi: ‘Love your audience without caring who they vote for’

    The standup and author on what she’s learned from comedy, her traumatic gig at Glastonbury and who makes her howl with laughter

January 2022

  • Shaparak Khorsandi and Esther Manito

    ‘We weren’t allowed feminism – we had the Spice Girls’: the two comics unpicking ladette culture

    Shaparak Khorsandi and Esther Manito both came of age during a time when women were expected to conform to male stereotypes. To reflect, they did what they do best: wrote comedy shows about it

February 2021

  • rachel fairburn erotic show for Guardian review

    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

February 2019

  • Love struck … from left, Angela Barnes, Joel Creasey, Emma Sidi, Ahir Shah and Sofie Hagen

    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

May 2018

  • Shappi Khorsandi

    Shappi Khorsandi review – convivial and caustic set from I'm a Celebrity star

  • Maxine Peake in Funny Cow

    Standups on Maxine Peake's Funny Cow: 'It made me proud of everything I've been through'

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

November 2017

  • Stanley Johnson and Shappi Khorsandi in I’m a Celebrity.

    I'm a Celebrity returns – and Stanley Johnson makes it a must-watch

    Boris’s dad looks like he’ll be guaranteed entertainment. And with Ant McPartlin returning from rehab and the inclusion of former Scottish labour leader Kezia Dugdale, season 17 in the jungle is leaving other reality TV shows in the dust

February 2017

  • Shappi Khorsandi

    The Q&A
    Shappi Khorsandi: ‘My worst job? Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed’

    The comedian and author on memories of Iran, doing things her way and buying her mum a walk-on part

January 2017

  • Shappi Khorsandi

    Shappi Khorsandi review – comic's cheering vision of an inclusive England

    The Iranian-born comic, marking 40 years since her arrival in the UK, makes a compelling argument for the multifaceted nature of nationhood
  • Shappi Khorsandi

    Shappi Khorsandi withdraws book from Jhalak prize longlist

    Comedian nominated for award for writers of colour says she ‘felt like my skin colour was up for an award rather than my book’
  • Nikesh Shukla.

    New British books prize for BAME authors unveils inaugural longlist

    The Jhalak prize lines up 12 titles – taking in fiction, history, politics and YA fantasy – showcasing ‘the strength, range and promise’ of UK writers of colour

December 2016

  • Shappi Khorsandi

    The funniest thing
    Shappi Khorsandi: ‘I had a dream Donald Trump got a lead role in Hamilton’

    The standup and president of the British Humanist Association on what makes her laugh the most

November 2016

  • Leonard Cohen, Photographed in Oslo

    Music blog
    World mourns the death of Leonard Cohen – as it happened

    Leonard Cohen has died aged 82. Here we round up tributes and reaction as they flood in for Canada’s cultural icon

October 2016

  • Al Murray as the Pub Landlord

    Al Murray, Pub Landlord review – pulling punches as well as pints

    Brexit gifts the Little Englander a barrel-load of acidic spoofs, but this act seems content to serve up just the mild

September 2016

  • Shappi Khorsandi

    Shappi Khorsandi on sex education: ‘We need to be less prudish’

    The comedian and president of the British Humanist Association explains why she is campaigning for more sex education and less faith segregation in schools
  • Josh Widdicombe, comedian

    The funniest thing
    Josh Widdicombe: ‘A heckler asked if I was the guy from The Hobbit’

    The observational standup and Last Leg co-host on what makes him laugh the most
  • We the Jury

    Open mic
    We the Jury and Travesty: do Acaster and Williams's new scripts stand up?

    James Acaster has penned a sitcom pilot and Liam Williams has written a play. Both bring echoes of their striking comedy routines but neither is as successful
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