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Comedy

19 July 2024

  • Bob Newhart in 1972 as psychologist Bob Hartley in his eponymous TV sitcom.

    Bob Newhart obituary

    US standup and sitcom star who exuded calm assurance in a career that spanned more than 50 years
  • man in a suit with his arms wide

    Stephen Colbert on Trump’s Republican convention speech: ‘Deeply, psychotically weird’

    Late-night hosts discuss ex-president’s extra-long address and JD Vance’s evolution from Trump critic to acolyte
  • A woman wearing a white dress stands next to a man wearing a black button-down, with fairy lights in the background

    Find Me Falling review – Harry Connick Jr heads to Cyprus in so-so Netflix romcom

    The multi-hyphenate leads a mostly standard issue streaming romantic comedy that struggles to fight its way out from the background

18 July 2024

  • white man wearing black suit and bowtie

    Bob Newhart, famed comedian and sitcom actor, dies at 94

  • Brian Logan

    Daniel Kitson detests audience participation but still manipulates us like marionettes

    Brian Logan
  • Head and shoulders shot of Sebastian Hotz in a white hoodie doing a sneer for the camera

    ‘Just missed’: German comedian loses job over Trump shooting joke

  • Stephen Colbert on the Republican National Convention: “Politicians can be both horrifying and boring at the same time.”

    Stephen Colbert on the Republican convention: ‘Horrifying and boring at the same time’

  • The Bear is not a comedy and it’s time to stop pretending it is

    Stuart Heritage

  • La Vie Secrète des Vieux review – older people reveal the full glory of their sex lives

17 July 2024

  • Lee (Danny Dyer) and Glen (Ryan Sampson) in Mr Bigstuff

    TV review
    Mr Bigstuff review – Danny Dyer does the business

    The ex-EastEnder is all charisma and comedy chops in this patchy sitcom about two wildly different brothers. The show leans heavily on his talent … and he delivers
  • man in a suit sits at table on stage

    Jon Stewart on Trump assassination attempt: ‘We dodged a catastrophe’

    Late-night hosts discuss the aftermath of the Trump rally shooting, bluster at the RNC and Trump’s VP pick JD Vance

    • The funniest things on the internet
      Jordan Prosser: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    • My Spy: The Eternal City review – Dave Bautista’s daddy-daughter spy comedy heads to Rome

    • Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

16 July 2024

  • Seth Meyers: ‘Political violence must be rejected in all its forms – it is both morally wrong and a poison to democracy.’

    Seth Meyers on Trump assassination attempt: ‘Poison to our democracy’

  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump (1994).

    Forrest Gump review – Tom Hanks’ chocolate box hero still gets under your skin

  • Annabel Scholey and Louise Brealey with cheering women in blue uniforms, gloves and hairnets in background

    Chuck Chuck Baby review – emotionally charged musical drama rules the roost

  • Hannah Platt posing with bouffant red hair and a stylised nosebleed that meets her red lipstick

    Comedy Q&A
    Hannah Platt: ‘I’m a crotchety old man trapped in the body of a little girl’

15 July 2024

  • On the road … Richard Roundtree and June Squibb in Thelma.

    Thelma review – June Squibb is marvellous in sweet mobility scooter revenge caper

    Ninety-four-year-old Squibb is great as a woman going after phone scammers – with the help of the late Shaft star Richard Roundtree – in a robust feelgood comedy

14 July 2024

  • Illustration showing four notebook pages filled with scrawls and doodles including the just-visible words "Coffey" "Sunak" and "LIES", with a blank page laid on top in the centre

    The Tory gravy train’s left town – but it’s got all my best gags on board

    Stewart Lee
    The Conservatives were a joke that just kept giving but where do the next four years of funny come from?
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