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Beyond the Edinburgh Fringe: Meet the young comedians taking the internet by storm
Sunday 24 July 2011
The Edinburgh Festival is now so crowded that many comedy acts are instead taking to the web in their attempts to break through. But is it any easier – and are the results worthwhile? Matt Chorley asks YouTube's big hitters
Stalin Ate My Homework, By Alexei Sayle
Sunday 10 July 2011
Never mind the Beatles...this is the Red Army Choir
Sport on TV: Haye sets out to be a Paxman who really packs a punch
Sunday 03 July 2011
Let's get ready to grumble. What a relief it was to get the Haye-Klitschko dust-up out of the way. Or at least all the pre-fight foul-mouthing by the big bad Brit, anyway. David Haye is one step closer to his real ambition in life, to be a Hollywood lightweight, and the rest of us can look forward to him only getting a couple of lines as the new Vinny Jones of the silver screen rather than enduring endless torrents of unpleasant nonsense.
Questions of cash: Internet booking mess is no laughing matter
Saturday 04 June 2011
Q. Hertz has charged me twice for a single period of car hire. I paid in full and six months in advance for 14 days' car hire at Funchal. The flight was delayed badly at Glasgow, and as there was no phone number on my Hertz voucher, I was unable to notify of the delay, or advise that we would collect the car the next day. At the airport I asked the woman at the Hertz desk to notify the relevant staff of the delay and to explain that we would collect the vehicle the following day. She told us this was "fixed". But on my return home it seemed that Hertz had charged me an extra £255.22, which seems to be a duplicate charge for the car hire, plus an extra £2.26 – for what, I don't know. VL, Isle of Arran.
Minor British Institutions: National treasures
Saturday 28 May 2011
Our National Treasures are instantly identifiable but difficult of definition. They are mostly rather old, but there's more to it: Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley have been NTs for years, while David Beckham was finally ushered in at the Royal Wedding.
Channel 4's Comedy Gala, O2, London
Friday 27 May 2011
Post-punk icon and inveterate grump Mark E Smith was recently asked what makes him most depressed; his answer was "all UK comedians". With a considerable number of tonight's 21 acts on poor form, partly due to over-runs, this charity gala could be admissible as evidence to support Smith's scything comment.
The Weekend's TV: Operation Crossbow, Sun, BBC2<br/>PhoneShop, Fri, Channel 4
Monday 16 May 2011
How the Spitfire called the shots
BGT: It's like YouTube for people who don't have a computer
Sunday 17 April 2011
In the absence of Simon Cowell, Holden's hair is star of 'Britain's Got Talent'
Tim Key: Deadpan poet's society
Sunday 06 February 2011
Steve Coogan is a big fan, but Tim Key doesn't do sold-out arenas and TV stand-up – and he loves it when no one laughs at his verse
Free kicks: 20 years of Stonewall FC
Sunday 30 January 2011
Stonewall Football Club has been tackling homophobic prejudice for 20 years – and now even the Queen is paying attention
Brand wins major comedy award
Sunday 23 January 2011
But Russell is not there to collect it - unlike namesake Jo, who also triumphs
David Hasselhoff hands out religious advice
Thursday 20 January 2011
David Hasselhoff has been giving religious advice to contestants on 'Britain's Got Talent'.
Authors on YouTube: I'm a celebrity, and I'm shameless
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Big names are using YouTube videos to promote their books. Do their unsubtle tactics really work? By Arifa Akbar
Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies
Thursday 30 December 2010
Safety concerns sparked drive to outlaw products
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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