London WondergroundDon't expect the shock of the new from the BBC Radio 4 stalwart, but audience suggestions and music really lift the second half Is it a live show " or an impersonation of …
The ex-Inbetweener's new work-in-progress standup show, about breaking beyond being typecast, has a self-lacerating character The maladroit comic parlaying their anxiety into humour is as ol…
Arcola theatreThe comedian draws on his Clapham childhood and violent dad as he rails against the dangers of the government's police, crime, sentencing and courts bill "Behaviour that causes…
Available onlineThe comic riffs on arts careers and money while playing video games and fending off his spirit animal in a likable show Tom Mayhew is performing live on Zoom every night of t…
Available onlineLacy's tales about her time on Aussie TV may leave Britons bemused but her show finds its feet with a smart outlook on celebrity Tania Lacy's standup show, Catch a Falling St…
Rio Cinema, LondonLucia Keskin's sense of fun and breakout potential radiates from these sketches shown at the Blue Tick festival There are leaps required of artists in this week's Blue Tick…
NetflixWang studs his special with memorable one-liners that dissect his feminist pretensions, the fear of ageing and UK perceptions of east Asia From the other side of a global pandemic, he…
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 stereot…
A set-ruining act of boorishness, or a vital rite of passage for standups? Often it depends on who's doing the heckling In the Guide's weekly Solved! column, we look into a crucial pop-cultu…
Though in later years he fell from fashion, his rabbinical style in early routines felt very much like live comedy's native tongue If Jackie Mason could speak to us now, he'd surely be repor…
Preston Park, BrightonLou Sanders, Ed Gamble and John Robins cracked jokes for an acres-wide crowd, with O'Doherty's delightful stream of consciousness the highlight Save for incapacitating …
Grange Farm, HuntingdonWatson and Nabil Abdulrashid were two standups who managed to thrive on a first night where the rain was less forgiving than the hecklers Another al fresco comedy gala…
Regent's Park Open Air theatre, LondonThe Irish comedian and guests Nish Kumar and Fatiha El-Ghorri lift their crowd's soggy spirits with some choice gags Aisling Bea is getting soaked; so a…
Turbine theatre, LondonUsing home videos of their own childhood, Rob Madge presents the moving and funny story of how a young Disney fan got to grow up to be Belle of the ball "Are you filmi…
The explosively funny standup has joked provocatively about race, leftwing politics and gender. Next up, his mother-in-law In 2019, a performance of Fin Taylor's #MeToo-themed When Harassy M…
Vaudeville theatre, LondonRuPaul's Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards rampages into the West End and has an easy way with the crowd "My favourite subject is talking about me," Alyssa Edwards tell…
Available onlineThe age of peak podcast meets its match in John-Luke Roberts and his procession of hilariously titled imaginary shows In 2018, John-Luke Roberts's Edinburgh show consisted en…
Available onlinePart behind-the-scenes doc and part reiteration of Gethard's faith in comedy, this is a vivid portrait of a peripatetic life Chris Gethard's new film opens with the 40-year-o…
Netflix With electro-pop social commentary, bleak humour and sock-puppet debates, the comic's lockdown creation is astonishing Well, now we know what Bo Burnham did with his lockdown. Inside…
Soho theatre, London Newman dissects ideas with intelligence, running around the houses and back, on themes from politics and humanity to parenthood A masked audience is a novelty at his gig…
Do you want your sightlines unobstructed by big hair, or is avoiding the eyeline of savage comics your priority? Here's the perfect spot to enjoy the show In the Guide's weekly Solved! colu…
Pleasance, London, and onlineSeven comedians, including Priya Hall and Chloe Petts, marked the reopening of theatres with some slick live sets "I think I can remember how to comedy," says Da…
All4The Inbetweeners star plays on his first TV special's lack of audience by claiming high sophistication " while deftly pricking the bubble with pretend banter Simon Bird always intended t…
Available onlineThe cast of a whodunnit are all suspects when an impresario is found dead in this likably silly, hummable show Blackpool impresario Varthur McArthur has a doozy of an idea fo…
Available onlineLauren Pattison, Kay Greyson and Richard Boggie deliver audio plays about stage disasters, a sobering drinks interval and playing to an audience of none Some of the finest lo…