Culture

Sarah Keyworth
25 July 2018

Sarah Keyworth: 10 Things that make me laugh
I love French Bulldogs doing anything, sleeping, eating, wrapped in blankets, dressed as carrots, wearing sunglasses, failing to catch things in slow motion. They’re always good value. My parents never ...

Stupid Cupid by Tom Webb
24 July 2018

Writer and performer Liz McMullen on what inspired her to create the one woman show Stupid Cupid
I have been acting for thirteen years. I love my job. It’s my passion. But it’s also so frustrating that so often I can’t do it. Not enough work. Too ...

Matt Winning
24 July 2018

Matt Winning: 10 Things that make me laugh
I guess I’ve never really stopped to think about what things specifically make me laugh… well I have now. Here are some of the things in life which make me ...

Elf Lyons by Andy Hollingworth
23 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by Elf Lyons
You may think this is base - but penises are proof that god exists. and that they are a woman. Because THEY ARE SO FUNNY. They keep me entertained all ...

Robyn Perkins
23 July 2018

Robyn Perkins' tips to laughing 10 times a day
In life, and in comedy, I think the most important thing is to laugh at yourself.  A classic thing I do is that I will run for the bus, barely ...

John-Luke Roberts
23 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by John-Luke Roberts
I was waiting in a reception of a fancy office building. There was a fully grown, sensible-looking adult man waiting very casually, sitting next to a suitcase. The receptionist turned ...

Rob Auton
23 July 2018

The things that make me laugh by Rob Auton
My name is Rob Auton, I am a writer and performer of what I write. Sometimes I stand up on stage at comedy nights and it makes people laugh and ...

Pierre Novellie
23 July 2018

Pierre Novellie discusses his new show 'See Novellie, Hear Novellie, Speak Novellie'
If you are a comedian then the hardest thing in the world is to try and be as funny as something utterly stupid and irrelevant that you and your friends ...

Jenny Horsthuis
23 July 2018

Jenny Horsthuis discusses 'The Three Musketeers'
As a young female actor, I have seen play after play dominated by male characters and in particular those with a classical text. Beautifully constructed plays and novels written by ...

Alice Snedden
23 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by Alice Snedden
This clip of the boy falling off his chair in pursuit of an ice-cream truck. There really is nothing better than his face, so full of hope, smack-landing on the ...

Matt Price
23 July 2018

Matt Price: 10 Things that make me laugh
I was given a free life coaching session. The coach’s life had been a catalogue of disasters from failed relationships to businesses. I’m a twenty stone man and she told ...

Murder, She Didn't Write by Jamie Corbin
22 July 2018

10 things that make me laugh by Lizzy Skrzypiec, director of Murder, She Didn't Write
As an improviser I find moments of genuine spontaneity the most comedic. We are never more hilariously human than when we react on the spot, instantly and without filter. Here ...

Athena Kugblenu
22 July 2018

Athena Kugblenu: 10 Things that make me laugh
For someone who tells jokes for a living, not much makes me laugh out loud. I do find things funny. But I don’t laugh out loud often. I used to ...

Dominoes by Richard Budd
21 July 2018

My inspiration for 'Dominoes' by Phoebe McIntosh
They say everyone has a book in them. The ability to produce at least one tome accounting for some of their time on earth; words they have to speak; a ...

Ian Smith
21 July 2018

Ian Smith: 10 Things that make me laugh
I love being inside, laughing at people who have got caught in the rain. I know that sounds mean, but there is no joy quite like it. It’s funnier the ...

Olga Koch
20 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by Olga Koch
Olga Koch shares with us the top 10 things that make her laugh ahead of her new show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Skateboards Skateboards are funny because you can ...

Ashley Storrie by Steve Ullathorne
20 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh on the internet by Ashley Storrie
The internet can be a right kick in the humps sometimes, what was once a sanctuary of cat memes and videos of children falling is now a temple of doom ...

Micky Overman
20 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by Micky Overman
We're not allowed to love Friends as much as we used to because of problems due to it being made in the past, but I learned to speak English watching ...

Where does the love go?
20 July 2018

10 Things that make us laugh by Zach and Viggo
Written by Zach Zucker, Viggo Venn and Jonny Woolley of Zach & Viggo. Most people think jokes are funny, and that can be true if you’re going for ‘head laughs’ ...

Great British Mysteries: 1599 by Michael Shelford
20 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by Rose Robinson from Great British Mysteries: 1599?
The TV Series ‘Camping’. I watched the entire series on the train back from the Fringe, the day after a break-up. As you can imagine, I was not in ...

Ken Cheng by Steve Ullathorne
20 July 2018

Ken Cheng: 10 Things that make me laugh
My friend Emma and I like to send each other these banal voicemails over Whatsapp. They often start with something like “it’s Jonathan from KwikFit” or “this is Stephanie from ...

Garrett MIllerick
19 July 2018

10 Things that make me laugh by Garrett Millerick
I was in a bookshop recently and an old man ripped a huge fart and looked over to a bemused teenager and laughed. Not a single F given. Marvelous. Kitchen ...

Stardust by Alex B
19 July 2018

My inspiration for 'Stardust' by Miguel H Torres Umba
When it comes to creating work, I am particularly interested in looking for ways of speaking out, of telling the world things that bug me, that affect me personally or ...

The Providence of Neighboring Bodies
19 July 2018

My inspiration for 'The Providence of Neighboring Bodies' by Jean Ann Douglass
I spent a decade of my adult life telling people that I didn’t like plays. I like theater, I would say, but I just don’t like plays.  In hindsight, my ...