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Comedy

March 2026

  • Jessica Alade holding bunches of flowers as Ophelia in Hamlet at the National Theatre.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: a decade of Dom Coyote’s spellbinding stage music

    The composer’s new album features tracks from Hamlet and Everyman, while The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa has a free week on YouTube
  • On the left, a black man wearing black with a black hat on a black background. On the right a white man wearing white on a white background

    ‘You’re sweet – and I’m old!’: Billy Porter and Sam Morrison on teaming up for a comedy about love and death

    The Emmy-winning singer and actor was so struck by the comedian’s autobiographical one-man show Sugar Daddy that he signed on as producer. The pair discuss ‘bears’, blood sugar and bridging the divides between generations of gay men
  • Australian actor Magda Szubanski

    ‘Seems I’m not dead’: Magda Szubanski says she is in remission after treatment for stage four cancer

    The actor, 64, shares news in social media post, saying hopefully she will ‘keep the cancer at bay for a good long time’
  • Seth Meyers on the State of the Union: 'Long and boring.'

    Seth Meyers on Trump’s State of the Union address: ‘A vehicle to attack anyone who doesn’t bend the knee’

    Late-night hosts discussed the response to the long-winded speech and suspicious redactions from the Epstein files
  • Alice Orr-Ewing and Jamie Wilkes in Easy Virtue at the Arts theatre, Cambridge.

    Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn brings back Noël Coward’s divorce dramedy in high style

    Marital uncoupling may not be the social taboo it was in the 1920s, but this sumptuous revival delivers timeless pathos with the witty barbs
  • Jimmy Kimmel: “Here’s the real state of the union: we have a nut job wannabe king who’s doing everything he can to censor opinions he doesn’t want to hear.”

    Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s State of the Union: ‘A nutjob wannabe king’

    Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s record-breakingly long and typically divisive address on Tuesday night
  • Jonathan Watson and Maureen Carr in Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door.

    Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door review – in search of Macca’s Mull of Kintyre hideaway

    An anecdote about a trip to find Paul McCartney’s Scottish retreat turns into a sweet-natured two-hander
  • Alaa Shehada of Palestine Comedy Club.

    Palestine Comedy Club review – roving performance collective finds light in darkness

    This portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightful
  • Jon Stewart on stage

    Jon Stewart on politicization of USA hockey win: ‘Is Kash Patel a Make-a-Wish man?’

  • Mike Wozniak

    Comedy Q&A
    Mike Wozniak: ‘An RAF officer didn’t like my sketch about the Queen Mum so he set off the fire alarm’

  • man in suit speaks with hands gestured at desk, a picture of a man looking to side on screen

    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on Elon Musk’s X: ‘Now worse than useless’

  • Philippe Gaulier

    Philippe Gaulier obituary

  • Comedian Harriet Kemsley holding an ice-cream, recreating a photo of her as a kid

    Flashback
    Harriet Kemsley looks back: ‘My parents say I was a very well-behaved child. Sadly this has been in steady decline over the years’

  • Maria Bamford performs in LA in 2024.

    Maria Bamford review – an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step

  • Stephen Colbert

    Stephen Colbert on Andrew’s arrest: ‘Let’s hear it for British justice’

    The late-night hosts expressed glee over Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest while also showing confusion over Trump’s board of peace
  • Shenoah Allen on stage holding a microphone

    Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime review – guns and slaughter as ‘the devil’s son’ strives to know himself

    Allen, one half of the influential Pajama Men comedy duo, mines his personal trauma for a slightly undercooked show about his dramatic upbringing in New Mexico
  • Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell in Cold Storage.

    Cold Storage review – mutant-mildew plague horror comedy stuffs fun into the fungi

    Stranger Things’ Joe Keery is joined by a stellar cast battling an outbreak of virulent brain spores, but the film doesn’t offer much more than endless wisecracks and a splatterhouse grossfest
  • Neal Davies, Mel Giedroyc and John Savournin in the ENO’s production of HMS Pinafore.

    From patriotic parody to threat: Flanders and Swann, the Likely Lads and Reform

  • Graeme Garden at Bristol Slapstick festival.

    Brief letters
    Goodies galore in a Clued-up crossword tribute to Graeme Garden

  • The Battle by John Niven

    The Battle review – Britpop bickering and 90s nostalgia in Blur v Oasis comedy

    The bands that came to symbolise a divided nation compete to top the charts in John Niven’s jokey play but it is woefully short on drama
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