A romantic surprise has unexpected consequences in a gentle comedy channelling Éric Rohmer crossed with Carry on CampingHere is a terrifically fresh, funny and gentle film from director and co-writer Guillaume Brac, which takes quite seriously somethin…
TV tonight: awkward confessions continue in Aisling Bea’s hilarious stealth hit
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Queen of comedy Charlotte Ritchie on Ghosts: ‘It’s loving, uncynical – and people fall over’
She got gross-out laughs in Fresh Meat, died superbly in Call the Midwife – and now she’s back communing with spirits in Ghosts. Is Charlotte Ritchie getting too famous to buy her own leggings?Charlotte Ritchie is video calling from her London flat, wh…
West End producer David Pugh: ‘My guiding principle was always: will mum like it?’
He turned Art and The Play What I Wrote into smashes. Now he’s handing out flyers for Charlie and Stan. But will pandemic-shy audiences come and see it? Reports of the death of the stereotypical West End producer have been exaggerated. I’m in Bath, sat…
Gagging order: is it ever OK to heckle a comedian?
A set-ruining act of boorishness, or a vital rite of passage for standups? Often it depends on who’s doing the hecklingIn the Guide’s weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-culture question you’ve been burning to know the answer to – and set…
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Eddie Izzard: ‘Becoming an MP is still my goal’
The comedian, 59, talks about her love of running, gender fluidity and her plans to go into politicsBoarding school was pretty grim: dormitories, horrible food, structure. Mum disappeared and then suddenly I didn’t see Dad for huge chunks of the year e…
‘I’m double-vaxxed and won’t spit on you!’ Six standups on returning to live comedy
Andrew Maxwell, Olga Koch, Sadia Azmat and more reflect on the return of audiences after a year away – plus offer up some new jokes!Modern Toss on comedy at the fringethe best of fringe, in person and onlineIt’s a feeling of pure joy. Over the last yea…
The dark art of contact tracing
“I asked for a world class team of contact tracers.” In which Australians The Chaser make lemonade from pandemic lemons.
The Suicide Squad review – eyeball-blitzing supervillain reboot
Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn is a good directorial fit for the humour and freaky violence of DC’s bad-guy jamboree DC’s new Suicide Squad movie announces itself as different from the coolly received first film from 2016 simply by adding “The” t…