She has a name and it’s Anna Crilly. She makes me laugh, endlessly - I mean I suppose that’s her job - (not within the marriage). She’s a comedy actor ...
Finding Fassbender is a first for me. It’s the first play I’ve ever written, which means it’s the first time I’m wearing the writer and performer hat simultaneously. But the inspiration ...
This Country (Daisy Cooper is the don) Brexit negotiations I’m not proud of this but me and my flatmate quote 2016’s Celebrity Big Brother non-stop. It was a vintage year: ...
Mrs Anita Choudhrie, Founder of the Stellar International Art Foundation, gives us 5 reasons to try art at least once. Growing up in India, I was exposed to a spectrum ...
My six year old co-writer. I have let a six year old child write my Edinburgh show this year, and she is bloody hilarious, not always intentionally granted, but she ...
Riverdance has long been a favourite in the Twydle household - we’ve seen it six times - and it’s become a tradition at parties that we play the music and ...
This is a lovely piece of character comedy by Joe Wengert, who plays the manager of a frozen yoghurt shop. Useless authority figures with no self-awareness is one of my ...
There is a particular type of older woman in show business that all gay men gravitate towards. Behind every gay man is a loud, powerful woman shouting “Sing out Louise”. ...
A touring life with Circa often lends itself to quite a varying schedule, however now that we have landed in London for two months I am looking forward to slightly ...
Sarah Kendall’s told some absolutely beautiful stories about growing up in smalltown Australia in this Radio 4 series. The feelings of adolescent awkwardness and frequent naivety in having to confront ...
Here are 10 things that make me laugh. I wasn't sure if this meant 10 comedians/TV shows/films etc, or 10 things in day to day life, so I've done a ...
My answers are as follows. Asking a comedian what they find funny is not as straightforward as it might seem. Like a chef, we pick through the food and either ...
Corrie is my not-so-guilty pleasure! I’ll watch it proudly on catch up on the train to gigs! Sally Webster to me is one of the funniest characters. It’s just that ...
There's a bit in this classic episode of Fawlty Towers where Polly is trying to explain to Basil that the chef, Kurt, is drunk, but does it with the most ...
Old West Indians – The mix of plucky determination and oftentimes outward distain for any and everybody has always been hilarious to me. And, as is the case with my ...
My name is Luca Cupani, I am a comedian and I am always looking for the entertaining side of life. I love to laugh (and to make people laugh), because ...
It’s hard to narrow this down to 10 but here goes. The most recent thing, spoiler alert if you haven’t seen it, is the hedgehog scene in the final Car ...
Mamma Mia! is back in Manchester for yet another run at the perfect time, just a couple of weeks before the Hollywood blockbuster sequel Here We Go Again hits the ...
The jokes and ideas that don’t make it into our shows. I (Jack) once thought of something in a dream state of sleepy semi-consciousness, scribbled it down furiously, and returned ...
First off, thank you to the people of Female First for the opportunity to contribute. Let me say the following, without any bitterness or malice, nor with any condescension to ...
I’m going on my Honeymoon in August. Honeymoons are inherently very funny. It’s a holiday, sure. But it’s also a holiday where you have unbelievable amounts of pressure to have ...
Firstly, let’s make it clear that what you’re about to read is a selection of activities I normally spread over a week, but, have crammed into one day here to ...
I have a confession to make- I had never seen Bill Bailey live until Wednesday night, nor had I seen him in anything on TV. So, I hadn’t the slightest ...
