Live Comedy Features

Here are the latest features we've published about live comedy.

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The Bare & Klare Show. Image shows from L to R: Klare (Remi May), Bare (Alex Cubb).

First Gig, Worst Gig: Bare & Klare

Friday 5th June 2020

Fresh from RuPaul's Drag Race, Scaredy Kat is now making lockdown weirdness with fake bear Remi May - but how have danger-dates, curious olives and a barn door led them here?

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Random 8: Anthony Jeannot

Tuesday 2nd June 2020

Who made a faux pas with a man-boob and ate crispy skin? Let Anthony Jeannot fill you in.

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First Gig, Worst Gig: JoJo Bellini

Friday 29th May 2020

Holed up in New Zealand but still knocking out fresh stuff, JoJo Bellini serves up a fruity cocktail of ups and downs.

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1979 and all that: Back to the future for comedy after coronovirus?

Friday 29th May 2020

Oliver Double, the author of Alternative Comedy: 1979 And The Reinvention Of British Stand-Up, gives his thoughts on whether the club circuit will bounce back from lockdown, if live comedy is art, and whether alternative comedians were only ever preaching to the converted.

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Stuart Goldsmith's Infinite Sofa. Stuart Goldsmith.

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Stuart Goldsmith talks about his Infinite Sofa

Thursday 28th May 2020

Big stars, a big in-the-Zoom audience, plus an occasional naked weirdo. Stuart Goldsmith's Infinite Sofa is the lockdown show that might just run and run.

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