Tag: Comedy

Total Results: 33


'Of course, any appeal to “safety” in the context of a comedy show is mere sleight-of-tongue, a specious justification for the curbing of artistic freedom.' Photo: Awakening/Getty.
30 Jul 2025 - 1:01am

The fools who captured the Fringe Regime comedians echo dogma

Andrew Doyle

Tuesday, 17 December

17.12

Why I’m leaving the UK Prissy moralists have killed artistic licence

Andrew Doyle

Saturday, 23 November

23.11

Why the Left always takes the MAGA bait Each side feeds off the other

Kat Rosenfield

Monday, 8 January

08.01

Stop calling Ricky Gervais anti-woke Culture should not be straitjacketed by ideology

Andrew Doyle

Wednesday, 20 December

20.12

PG Wodehouse scoffed at politics In his world, comedy dissolved the bounds of class

Nikhil Krishnan

Wednesday, 18 October

18.10

The age of the comedy roast is over Satirical annihilation has become a sanitised ritual

Oliver Bateman

Thursday, 21 September

21.09

The lies of trauma merchants Hasan Minhaj won over liberals by playing the victim

Kat Rosenfield

Monday, 18 September

18.09

Peep Show is a national humiliation Its nihilism speaks for us all

Nicholas Harris

Friday, 1 September

01.09

Russell Brand’s latest addiction His quest for intimacy will never be satisfied

Tanya Gold

Monday, 15 May

15.05

Why Gen Z loves Seinfeld We're sick of sanctimony culture

Nicholas Harris

Tuesday, 2 May

02.05

Father Ted’s elegy for old Ireland Hyper-modernity has displaced church and community

Conor Fitzgerald

Wednesday, 14 December

14.12

The art world’s lost sense of humour Censors assume everyone must be stupid

Kat Rosenfield