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What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
Fancy a laugh? Tickle your funny bone with these stand-up gigs, interviews and festivals.
Sandi Toksvig’s post-lockdown tour Next Slide, Please is named after Chris Whitty’s catchphrase from the daily COVID briefings. However, Sandi’s slides were full of joy, silliness and fun.
There aren’t many comedians whose live shows come with virulent content warnings - Bianca Del Rio is one of them, and the Cardiff stopoff of her Unsanitized tour is suitably filthy.
Al Murray, aka the Pub Landlord, has returned to the fray post-lockdown to mull the topics of the day, with two south Wales dates on a big UK tour.
In between a tight schedule for her biggest comedy tour yet (coming to Cardiff in May), Bianca Del Rio talks post-pandemic comedy, All Stars 7, and her unexpected love of Greggs.
Familiar TV face, ideological lightning rod and sound geezer Nish Kumar is in the midst of a very long tour, titled Your Power, Your Control, which visits Brecon and Cardiff over Easter.
Musical comedy duo - and sisters - Flo & Joan are set to tinker the ivories (and funny bones) at the Sherman in Cardiff. Carl Marsh finds out how they found their singing voices.
One of the least compromising comedians in the UK, Mark Thomas doesn't mince his words speaking to David Griffiths about Welsh culture, English nationalism, BLM and, eventually, his new show.
From theatre to comedy to dance to musicals, we've rounded up our favourite stage shows in Wales over 2021.
What is normal anymore? As comedian Bill Bailey tells Carl Marsh, his new tour - coming to Cardiff this month - attempts to answer this possibly un-answerable question.
Continuing his return to comedy, superstar Tim Minchin is back with, well, Back Encore, hitting Motorpoint Arena Cardiff next week.
Though billed as a comedy, The Tigerface Show at Newport's Riverfront left Lynda Nash feeling far from amused.
Quick-witted with punchy delivery, Jayde Adams kept the jokes coming at Cardiff's Glee Club before you had chance to laugh off the previous.
Carl Marsh arrived with high expectations for this gig, as a fan of the Clinton Baptiste podcasts, but reports that he hasn't laughed so much in years...
Remember glamorous Lancashire clairvoyant Clinton Baptiste on Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights? What were all that about? About to visit Cardiff as part of an extensive UK tour, that’s what, with the character having taken on a life of its own – recently in the podcast ‘medium’ and now once again in the live setting. Carl Marsh hopped on the psychic hotline.
As promised by the enigmatic title and psychedelic poster design, Simon Amstell’s Spirit Hole brought to the stage all the beautiful, left-wing, loving open-mindedness one only fantasises about existing in the heart of the 1960s.
This Gloucestershire-born comedian's show Who Am I? is a menopausal march through myriad ailments and complaints brought on by the passage of time.
Have you ever imagined what you’d get if Bianca Del Rio was a character created by Victoria Wood? If not, then watch a Myra DuBois show.
Simon Amstell has surfed the TV-to-standup-to-film-director pipeline with plenty of success, but like the best of us, he still wallows in shame, tied down by the society we live in. New live show Spirit Hole is about escaping that… hole, and ahead of its Cardiff date he spoke about it to Carl Marsh.
BBC One’s Ghosts has been lauded for its supernatural achievement of making a sitcom that appeals equally to adults and kids. The denizens of the haunted Button House have just returned to screens for a third series, before which seven of its cast took part in a virtual round table for an audience including Buzz’s Billie Ingram Sofokleous.
Welsh standup queen and smash hit podcaster Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s latest venture arrives via the airwaves. If Carl Marsh’s enthusiastic testimony is anything to go by, Radio Wales’ The Learners is one of the best sitcoms set in a language learning class you will ever encounter.
GŴYL 2021 | INTERVIEW The latest example of making lemonade from lemons, where lemonade is neat looking online events and lemons are a global pandemic, arrives on the first weekend …
HENNING WEHN Speaking to Sam Pryce, the self-styled German Comedy Ambassador discusses starting out in standup, appearing on ‘Question Time’, and his thoughts on – ahem – Brexit. When Henning …
STAGE LISTINGS | MARCH 2020 SUNDAY 1 MARCH Alice Congress Theatre, Cwmbran. 1 + 5pm, £9/£6.50. Info 01633 868239. Presented by the SL Dance Academy. I assume by the graphics …
PHIL WANG The smartly silly comedian is making two stops off in Wales with his imaginatively self-titled tour Philly Philly Wang Wang. Covering his British-Malaysian heritage, his tragic dating life, …
