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Comedy

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Sandi Toksvig

There are worse ways to spend an evening than with “silly and childish” SANDI TOKSVIG

May 19, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Reviews Region: South Wales
Read moreThere are worse ways to spend an evening than with “silly and childish” SANDI TOKSVIG
Bianca Del Rio

Drag superstar BIANCA DEL RIO roasts Cardiff to a crisp on UNSANITIZED tour

May 10, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Reviews
Read moreDrag superstar BIANCA DEL RIO roasts Cardiff to a crisp on UNSANITIZED tour
Al Murray

“The Pub Landlord thought it was a lock-in, not lockdown” – how AL MURRAY weathered COVID

May 10, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read more“The Pub Landlord thought it was a lock-in, not lockdown” – how AL MURRAY weathered COVID
Bianca Del Rio

“I’d never cancel tour dates to film a TV show” – BIANCA DEL RIO on her mega world tour, DRAG RACE ‘winners’ season

April 26, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read more“I’d never cancel tour dates to film a TV show” – BIANCA DEL RIO on her mega world tour, DRAG RACE ‘winners’ season
Nish Kumar

“The only bread roll thrown at me was an act of love” – NISH KUMAR on politics, comedy & doughy heckles

April 14, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews, Previews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales
Read more“The only bread roll thrown at me was an act of love” – NISH KUMAR on politics, comedy & doughy heckles
Flo & Joan - credit Matt Crockett

“We’re terrible at improv – luckily, musical theatre stuck!” – sisters FLO & JOAN on finding their comedy niche

February 15, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read more“We’re terrible at improv – luckily, musical theatre stuck!” – sisters FLO & JOAN on finding their comedy niche
Mark Thomas - credit Steve Ullathorne

“The UK is having an existential crisis I can’t see it survive” – comedian Mark Thomas on Wales, nationalism, BLM… oh, and his new show

February 12, 2022

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read more“The UK is having an existential crisis I can’t see it survive” – comedian Mark Thomas on Wales, nationalism, BLM… oh, and his new show
Conner Peirson in The Book Of Mormon - credit Paul Coltas

The year in review: from BOOK OF MORMON to SIMON AMSTELL, our best Welsh stage shows of 2021

December 28, 2021

From theatre to comedy to dance to musicals, we've rounded up our favourite stage shows in Wales over 2021.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Dance, Features, Theatre Region: Wales-Wide
Read moreThe year in review: from BOOK OF MORMON to SIMON AMSTELL, our best Welsh stage shows of 2021
Bill Bailey En Route to Normal

“What is normal these days? I don’t know” – en route to Cardiff, Bill Bailey assesses lockdown life

December 14, 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.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read more“What is normal these days? I don’t know” – en route to Cardiff, Bill Bailey assesses lockdown life
Tim Minchin, Back Encore, Cardiff

Comedy superstar TIM MINCHIN returns to touring (again) with BACK ENCORE

November 18, 2021

Continuing his return to comedy, superstar Tim Minchin is back with, well, Back Encore, hitting Motorpoint Arena Cardiff next week.

Category: Comedy, Previews Region: South Wales
Read moreComedy superstar TIM MINCHIN returns to touring (again) with BACK ENCORE
The Tigerface Show

I left feeling rather depressed – THE TIGERFACE SHOW | STAGE REVIEW

October 25, 2021

Though billed as a comedy, The Tigerface Show at Newport's Riverfront left Lynda Nash feeling far from amused.

Category: Comedy, Culture, Reviews, Theatre
Read moreI left feeling rather depressed – THE TIGERFACE SHOW | STAGE REVIEW
Jayde Adams

Cheek-achingly funny, unforeseeably educational – JAYDE ADAMS | STAGE REVIEW

October 20, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Reviews Region: South Wales
Read moreCheek-achingly funny, unforeseeably educational – JAYDE ADAMS | STAGE REVIEW

CLINTON BAPTISTE | STAGE REVIEW

October 7, 2021

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...

Category: Comedy, Reviews Region: South Wales
Read moreCLINTON BAPTISTE | STAGE REVIEW
Clinton Baptiste

CLINTON BAPTISTE | INTERVIEW

October 4, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: South Wales
Read moreCLINTON BAPTISTE | INTERVIEW
Simon Amstell

SIMON AMSTELL | STAGE REVIEW

September 21, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Reviews Region: South Wales
Read moreSIMON AMSTELL | STAGE REVIEW
Bridget Christie

BRIDGET CHRISTIE | PREVIEW

September 14, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Previews Region: Mid Wales, South Wales
Read moreBRIDGET CHRISTIE | PREVIEW
Myra Dubois Dead Funny

MYRA DUBOIS | STAGE REVIEW

September 9, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Reviews Region: South Wales
Read moreMYRA DUBOIS | STAGE REVIEW

SIMON AMSTELL | INTERVIEW

September 8, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews, Previews Region: South Wales
Read moreSIMON AMSTELL | INTERVIEW

GHOSTS: THE CAST | INTERVIEW

August 16, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews
Read moreGHOSTS: THE CAST | INTERVIEW

KIRI PRITCHARD-MCLEAN | INTERVIEW

August 13, 2021

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.

Category: Comedy, Interviews Region: Wales-Wide
Read moreKIRI PRITCHARD-MCLEAN | INTERVIEW

GŴYL 2021 | INTERVIEW

March 2, 2021

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 …

Category: Comedy, Music Region: South Wales
Read moreGŴYL 2021 | INTERVIEW

“Political debate in Britain at the moment is fairly predictable.” HENNING WEHN | INTERVIEW

March 16, 2020

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 …

Category: Comedy, Interviews, upfront Region: South Wales
Read more“Political debate in Britain at the moment is fairly predictable.” HENNING WEHN | INTERVIEW

STAGE LISTINGS | MARCH 2020

March 2, 2020

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 …

Category: Comedy, Listings, Theatre Region: South Wales
Read moreSTAGE LISTINGS | MARCH 2020

ROUNDUP | MARCH

February 29, 2020

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, …

Category: 10 Things To Do This Week, Art, Comedy, Dance, Film, Music, Photography, Previews, Roundups, Theatre Region: South Wales
Read moreROUNDUP | MARCH
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