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”…
‘We’re the weirdos – the joke’s on us’: on the set of the People Just Do Nothing movie
The Kurupt FM crew are back in a big screen, fish-out-of-water adventure set in Japan, complete with lots of eye-wateringly tight DayGlo LycraOn an Uxbridge film set, the cast of People Just Do Nothing are clad from neck to ankle in DayGlo Lycra. Frank…
Ghosts series three review – does the fearsome fright club need new blood?
Hard-drinking toff Barclay Beg-Chetwynde seems set to be the next member of the phantom troop, in the only TV show that would benefit from bumping more people offHell is other people. Bad enough to spend lockdown finding out if your nearest really are …
Jennifer Coolidge: ‘I was fatalistic… I assumed Covid was going to win’
The Hollywood star on almost saying no to her new hit HBO drama White Lotus, doing sex scenes in her 50s – and pretending to be a HemingwayBoston-born Jennifer Coolidge, 59, trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and joined improv comedy trou…
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…
TV tonight: Jon Richardson has a snigger at horrifying foreign telly
The comic lines up a sample of international TV titbits. Plus: how to save £1,000 in a day. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading…