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Susan Calman

April 2024

  • Michael Sheen on The Assembly.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Michael Sheen faces wildly personal questions in a dynamite interview

    Thirty-five autistic and neurodivergent give the TV star the grilling of a lifetime. Plus: Romesh Ranganathan returns with Avoidance. Here’s what to watch this evening

January 2021

  • Remember nights out? It’s a Sin.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Russell T Davies's new drama examines the 80s Aids crisis

    Olly Alexander heads the cast in It’s a Sin. Plus: Jimmy and Jamie serve up another Friday Night Feast. Here’s what to watch this evening

November 2018

  • Susan Calman

    The Q&A
    Susan Calman: ‘When was I happiest? Dancing with Kevin Clifton on Strictly’

    The comedian and writer on her fear of flying, Adrian Mole and sniffing her cats’ paws

June 2018

  • Eric Eddings; Brittany Luse; Cariad Lloyd; Mary H.K Choi; Barak Obama with Marc Maron.

    Best culture 2018
    The 50 best podcasts of 2018

    From Julia Davies’ dark comedy Dear Joan to track by track teardown Dissect, Marc Maron to Meat and beyond, here are this year’s finest audio offerings

November 2017

  • Billy Connolly.

    Billy Connolly at 75: Eddie Izzard, Armando Iannucci and more salute 'Beatles of comedy'

    Izzard was inspired by his incontinence knickers routine. Iannucci had to listen to his albums in secret. Al Murray was in awe of his rampant charisma. And he made Susan Calman hurt with laughter. Top comedians salute the Big Yin

August 2017

  • Elisabeth Moss Robin Griffin Top of the Lake: China Girl Jane Campion

    TV tonight
    Thursday’s best TV: Top of the Lake; Prejudice and Pride; Insecure

    Jane Campion’s impressionistic prodcedural continues; plus a very personal history of LGBTQ Britain, and a new series for Issa Rae’s smart comedy

February 2017

  • Susan Calman

    Susan Calman review – Radio 4 favourite's sparky set is far from cosy

  • Susan Calman

    The funniest thing
    Susan Calman: ‘When I’m feeling down I watch clips of cats jumping on children’

December 2016

  • In the hotseat … (clockwise from top left) Phil Collins, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Rylance, Natasha Khan, Wilko Johnson, Toby Jones, Tamzin Outhwaite, Billie Piper, Dominic West, Beverley Knight, Uzo Aduba, Gemma Arterton, Jon Bon Jovi, Kevin Rowland.

    Culture webchats
    ‘As long as there are hairbrushes, people will sing’ – the best of 2016’s webchats

    Jon Bon Jovi’s key change killer, Gemma Arterton’s weep-off with Glenn Close, the weirdest thing that ever happened to Harry Shearer … here are the highlights of 2016’s culture webchats

November 2016

  • Susan Calman, who will take on your questions.

    Culture webchats
    Susan Calman webchat – your questions answered on zombies, depression and Clare Balding

    The searing Scottish comedian talked jokes, books and alternative careers

August 2016

  • Clockwise from left: Paul Merton, Isy Suttie, Lazy Susan and Al Murray

    '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 2016

  • Lily Allen at her home in west London

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer photography: April 2016

    Comedians, pop stars, artists and a wonderful pensioner feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer

April 2016

  • Marlene Dietrich, Susan Calman

    Susan Calman: how Marlene Dietrich changed my style forever

    Short and stocky, comedian Susan Calman made a point of looking unattractive – until the 1930s screen star finally provided her with a fashion idol

August 2015

  • Cricket Pitch - Ashes Specialy Zal

    This week’s new talks

    Cricket Pitch: Ashes Special | Talking Comedy | Jesse Jackson

July 2015

  • Furry hero … Grumpy Cat. Photograph: MediaPunch/Rex

    Radio review
    Pussy Galore review: ‘how did cats become an internet sensation?’

    Comedian Susan Calman fails to find the answer, but Radio 4’s feline-friendly investigation is great fun anyway

February 2015

  • Susan Calman

    Susan Calman review – shaking off the haters with frank self-acceptance

  • Susan Calman.

    Susan Calman: the worst 55 minutes of my standup career

July 2014

  • Hayley Ellis sits on a chair looking miserable, with a dog on a chair next to her

    My Edinburgh festival nightmare: further tales of standups' fringe hell

    Lucy Beaumont, Susan Calman, Carl Hutchinson and others survive humiliation in a homemade sandwich board, a hex involving the number two, and being upstaged by a giant rabbit in the audience

April 2014

  • Author Sue Townsend

    Sue Townsend – 'a lone voice, a humanist and a genius'

    Ian Rankin, Michael Rosen, Jonathan Coe, Alexis Petridis, Bob and Roberta Smith, Susan Calman, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Robin Ince, Luke Wright and Isy Suttie
    With the death of Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole and The Queen and I, the world has lost a unique comic talent. We asked writers to share their memories of the woman who hated to be called a national treasure

May 2013

  • Susan Calman

    Laughing stock: the week in comedy
    Susan Calman finds that Scottish independence is no joke

    Brian Logan: Deaths threats to comedian prompt calls for nationalists to raise the tone. Plus, Fringe gets new venue and Trump takes revenge
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