4+ hour, 37+ min ago  (240+ words) He has produced some wonderful movies, but it's as a comic that his genius really shines through. This is an important point. Brooks mixed great inventiveness with a percussive delivery. Before starting his own act in the Borscht Belt in…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (78+ words) The post Is John Cleese turning" based? appeared first on spiked. The Monty Python star is on a warpath against Iranian mullahs, Islamic sectarians and woke censorship. Perhaps they're afraid. Perhaps they mistakenly believe they're being "kind'. Either way, the…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1204+ words) Unlimited reading for "1 a month, for 3 months The comic-cum-activist is far more conceited, ignorant and lacking in self-awareness than his most famous creation. Coogan is a brilliant impressionist, with a very long list of credits. But there's only one part…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (352+ words) Unlimited reading for "1 a month, for 3 months Jacinda Ardern and the global cognoscenti only care about "free speech" when defending rabid haters of Israel. Abdel-Fattah has described the decision to rescind her invitation as a "shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (696+ words) The playwright has left us with some of the greatest plays " and gags " in the English language. Along with the silence and second-hand clothes that, as his Guildenstern reminds Rosencrantz, "death is, Sir Tom has left us a shelf of…...

10+ mon, 2+ day ago  (358+ words) How did a painfully unfunny transgender comic take home the Best Comedy Show award? Or perhaps not, judging by what I've seen of Nicoresti, although my own comedy is unlikely to fare better here. As the author EB White once…...

10+ mon, 4+ day ago  (331+ words) This product of the 'alternative' comedy scene is now firmly ensconced in the establishment. This year, Fry received a knighthood. It was inevitable but perhaps later than he, and the rest of us, expected, given he has been acquainted with…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago  (197+ words) Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon were dropped by venues over "safety" concerns and pro-Israel social-media posts. Two Jewish comedians, Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon, had their Edinburgh Fringe Festival slots cancelled last week thanks to alleged "safety concerns". Simon was…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago  (401+ words) His cross-dressing habit has elevated him to sacred-caste status. Let's start with an introduction to our dramatis personae. Kathleen Stock is a brilliant lesbian philosopher recognised for her contributions to aesthetics, the philosophy of fiction and imagination, and feminist philosophy....

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (155+ words) The Girls creator is the latest woke, whiny celeb to flee Trump's America for Blighty. God help us. Few things, for me, are as low-key amusing as the "comeback' of someone who I hadn't realised had ever been away. Take…...