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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.
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, …
MARK STEEL INTERVIEW Comedian and Independent columnist Mark Steel chats to Sam Pryce about divorce, Twitter trolls, the mystery of the Newport accent, and just how silly the Scilly Isles are. …
FASCINATING AÏDA: THEY’RE BACK AT LAST St David’s Hall, Cardiff Sat 15 Feb ***** With a career spanning almost four decades, Fascinating Aïda still manage to delight, charm and shock …
COUNT ARTHUR STRONG: IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE? Sherman Theatre, Cardiff Fri 7 Feb **** There is no question that Count Arthur Strong – the legendary comedy creation from the …
ROUND THE HORNE The latest of the classic radio comedies to hit the stage is Round The Horne. The original show ran on BBC Radio between 1965 and 1968 and, …
Delighting audiences with their sophisticatedly silly songs since 1983 and now viral sensations, Fascinating Aïda have established themselves as the undisputed queens of cabaret. Buzz talks to chief songwriter Dillie …
You wouldn’t expect your average 59-year-old Glaswegian woman (if there is such a thing) to be an internet superstar. But for stand-up star Janey Godley, her political voiceover videos – …
COUNT ARTHUR STRONG | INTERVIEW From cookery to crooning, there’s nothing that self-proclaimed doyen of light entertainment Count Arthur Strong can’t do. Turning his hand to stargazing, the legendary comedy …
Looking for a way to feed your inner culture vulture? We’ve rounded up eleven for you right here, with some of the best things happening across Wales in this month’s …
DAVID BADDIEL David Baddiel has enough strings to his bow as it is – comedian, novelist and, most recently, playwright. As he gears up to go on the road again …
As she stops off in Cardiff with her festive one-woman show, Canadian drag superstar Brooke Lynn Hytes spills the Tea to Sam Pryce on her dance background, her Christmas plans …
GOK WAN It’s not every day that you get to spend roughly five hours in the company of someone who is reported to be “the nicest person in showbiz” – …
JIMMY CARR: TERRIBLY FUNNY Proving political correctness has no place in his standup routines, Terribly Funny will see Carr, in his signature tongue-in-cheek style, covering topics that may be considered offensive …
ARDAL O’HANLON He’s kept us laughing since the 90s, as a stand-up and on our screens in Father Ted, My Hero and, most recently, Death In Paradise. Now touring the …
JORDAN BROOKES The outsider comedy of Jordan Brookes explores the darker areas of his own life and breaks with convention wherever possible. But has his recent fame changed how he sees himself? …
ED BYRNE As he embarks on his latest stand-up tour If I’m Honest, Irish comedian Ed Byrne spoke to Seren McKeever about how he generates new material and the personal …
