Irish actor Aisling Bea on writing This Way Up in lockdown while filming the new Home Alone movie reboot, women’s inner lives and her abiding love of potato wafflesWhen it comes to comedy, there is little Aisling Bea can’t turn her hand to. After train…
Five of the best podcasts: laugh-out-loud fictional comedies
From the world’s rudest agony aunts to pirate radio DJs and mock-celeb chat, if it’s comedy you’re after, there’s a podcast for thatJulia Davis has spent the past 15 years cementing her position as the doyenne of dark British comedy, and Dear Joan and …
Cancel culture killing comedy? What a joke
Chris Rock, Jennifer Saunders and more have argued that ‘wokeness’ is stifling comedy. But the idea of the joke police is actually nonsenseIs cancel culture destroying comedy? A lot of comedians seem to think so. John Cleese has fretted that “wokeness”…