Arts & Culture: Comedy
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In comedy
Shazia's week
- By Shazia Mirza
- 11 September
If I tried to do what Sarah Palin does in a day, I'd look like I'd spent the night in a Lidl doorway
What would Rasputin do?
- By Richard Herring
- 10 September
Comedian Richard Herring on Lee Hurst, clashing with hecklers, how he smashed a ringing mobile phone to smithereens and kicked someone in the head. Sort of...
Romantic comedy can survive
- By Graeme Allister
- 29 August
America could be on the verge of falling in love with Gavin and Stacey
Spirit of the Fringe? You must be joking...
- By Richard Herring
- 28 August
You can't capture the essence of Edinburgh in a corporate-sponsored perspex award and musicals about Pot Noodles
Unless a vacancy for a newsreader comes up at Channel 4, comedy is stuck with me
- By Shazia Mirza
- 28 August
After appearing at Edinburgh, most performers need reintegrating into society
An idyllic setting for some extreme karaoke
- By Phill Jupitus
- 21 August
One of the more ludicrous modern clichés is that comedy is "the new rock'n'roll". But in my experience, if you put on a comedian at a rock gig, the crowd tend to react rather badly
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Dazed and confused
This stoner comedy is muddled - and not because of the high-grade weed
Pineapple Express (15) dir: David Gordon Green
More in comedy
Julian's week
- By Julian Clary
- 07 August 2008
The joke is on us
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 31 July 2008
Edinburgh, open city
- 24 July 2008
Cancel Edinburgh!
- By Shazia Mirza
- 17 July 2008
Englishmen are useless
- By Shazia Mirza
- 05 June 2008
Battle of the petty bourgeoisie
- By Andrew Billen
- 17 April 2008
Death by "dramedy"
- By Rachel Cooke
- 17 April 2008
