‘I used to get in role by harassing my girlfriend’: the risky brilliance of playing anti-woke characters
Edinburgh fringe comics portraying cancelled standups and rightwing politicians talk about the dangers and successes of their satire
April 2022
Dave: The Opener review – Zoë Coombs Marr’s toxic male comedian is back
Taking in six years of ‘cancel culture’ and events as recent as the Will Smith slap, the comedian’s latest show lacks the polish of her previous
September 2019
The funniest thing
Zoë Coombs Marr: ‘I looked like a disturbed five-year-old's Barbie’
The Australian standup and actor on the things that make her laugh the most
August 2019
Zoë Coombs Marr review – a brazen hour of mind-bending meta-comedy
The Australian absurdist lays waste to standup convention with glee and skill – but is she too clever for her own good?
April 2018
Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom review – a surprising (and silly) reinvention of standup
Award-winning comedian sheds her alter ego ‘Dave’ but is no less critical of the brash, male-dominated cult of standup
May 2017
Zoë Coombs Marr, Adrienne Truscott and Ursula Martinez combine forces to eviscerate critics
With Wild Bore, three comedians at the top of their game deliver a meta exploration of criticism and performance that is truly, outrageously funny
August 2016
Zoë Coombs Marr at Edinburgh festival review – thrillingly silly meta comedy
The Australian standup’s sexist creation, Dave, is back in a multi-layered show that spoofs both chauvinism and clowning
July 2016
Zoë Coombs Marr: why a 'cranky lesbian in her 30s' should be person of the year
‘You can’t make intersectional feminism funny,’ says Coombs Marr as Dave, her alter ego. He goes on to make it hilarious, in a show that everyone should see
