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Alice Jones

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Alice Jones is Deputy Arts Editor of The Independent.

Shedinburgh Fringe Festival at the Traverse Theatre
Culture

Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival may be cancelled, but its spirit is alive

On reflection: The hotel is one of the most opulent in the UAE
Abu Dhabi

The hotel with the best view of Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Casa Cook offers a cut above the usual package experience, but has a price to match
Europe

Thomas Cook is trying to make package holidays cool – is it working?

Emma Thompson and Greg Wise Fishlove/J. Edelstein
Voices

The soft marine erotica is lovely, but is it for the love of fish?

Mark Rylance, as Olivia, right, and Johnny Flynn, as Viola, at Shakespeare's Globe in 2012
Features

Reflecting on a romance with a special place in my heart

Ant and Dec, standing the same way round they always do
Voices

TV presenting etiquette is symptomatic of sexism in the industry

Jarvis Cocker performs at Letters Live, London, 10 March 2016
Culture

Letters Live: a peek at the correspondence of famous folk

Teenage pregnancies in the UK have fallen by 45 per cent since 2007
Voices

Social media: the perfect no-contact, teen contraceptive

Obsession with stand-up: Jim Carrey and Judd Apatow
Reviews

Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow: Instructions from king of comedy

Voices

What do you buy for the happy couple who have everything?

Left to right: Tom Baker, The Vanity Project winners Flora Jackson and Rob Paterson, Marc Riley and Alice Jones
Music & Film

Manchester University duo, The Vanity Project, wins iSessions 2016

Much to-do about nothing: Is making a list really a waste of time?
Voices

The four reasons I love lists, even if they make me inefficient

Jennifer Mudge and Matthew Perry in 'The End Of Longing' at the Playhouse Theatre
Voices

The politics of Matthew Perry at the theatre

Voices

The politics of Matthew Perry at the theatre

Jennifer Mudge and Matthew Perry in 'The End Of Longing' at the Playhouse Theatre
Funny ha ha: David Quantick's comic pedigree shines through in his first novel
Reviews

The Mule by David Quantick: A Da Vinci code with laughs

Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge in 'Mid Morning Matters'
Features

The return of Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge

Skinner is a bargain at £5 an hour
Comedy

Frank Skinner's nightmare is great fun for us

Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
Voices

Innocent until proven guilty, but not if you’re reporting a sex crime

Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
Voices

Innocent until proven guilty, but not if you’re reporting a sex crime

Voices

London can’t keep sucking up the nation’s culture for itself

Voices

Single sex or co-ed? Why don't more schools try a bit of both

Colman show no vanity and is terribly British
Profiles

Olivia Colman has mastered both comedy and tragedy

'All of our targets were deserving,' Dan Mazer says of his work with Sacha Baron Cohen
Features

Dan Mazer on Dirty Grandpa and Bridget Jones


 Acrobats in the final scene of Cirque du Soleil's 'Amaluna' at London's Royal Albert Hall 
Theatre & Dance

A feminist update on 'The Tempest' from Cirque du Soleil

Glossy posse: Editor Kate Reardon (centre) and team
Voices

Tatler's list of 'People Who Really Matter' shows money still talks

Kevin Hart
Comedy

Kevin Hart really doesn't want you to bring your phone to his gigs

Walliams and Friends
Features

Heard the one about the hilarious older woman?

Glossy posse: Editor Kate Reardon (centre) and team
Voices

Tatler's list of 'People Who Really Matter' shows money still talks

Kevin Hart
Comedy

Kevin Hart really doesn't want you to bring your phone to his gigs

Walliams and Friends
Features

Heard the one about the hilarious older woman?

Voices

Sorry, I won’t be there for the Friends reunion

Voices

Sorry, I won’t be there for the Friends reunion

Sian Gibson: 'I'm really loving doing comedy. And that's what being thrown at me at the moment'
Features

Sian Gibson: From call centre worker to Peter Kay's Car Share

'I think of myself as charismatic. And other people have told me that, which is a great compliment. I think I've learned to be'
Profiles

Paul McKenna is launching a new book on the psychology of influence

Food revenue rose 3.6 per cent in total terms but edged 0.4 per cent lower on a like-for-like basis
Voices

After its Christmas dip, Marks & Spencer should keep it simple

Isy Suttie comedian
Features

The Must-Sees of 2016

Isy Suttie comedian
Features

The Must-Sees of 2016

Benedict Cumberbatch is already fed up of audience members filming his Hamlet at the Barbican
Voices

Celebrity ‘politicians’ have just as much right to pontificate as real

In the spotlight: Noma Dumezweni in 'Linda'
Features

Understudies in the limelight: Going from standby to star

Books are back: figures suggest buyers are turning away from e-books back to printed texts.
Voices

Books are back - thanks to mindless doodling

Sam Simmons, Kieran Hodgson and Bridget Christie star in Sam Simmons' Xmas on Sky Arts
Features

These cracker joke-writers will make you laugh

'Young Negro-Girl' by Simon Maris (1900), now called 'Young Girl Holding a Fan'
Voices

It’s a work of art, with or without the offensive name

The World's Most Expensive Christmas
Reviews

The world's most expensive Christmas, Channel 4 - TV review

Living on the hedge: Idris Elba stars as the disturbed detective in 'Luther'
Reviews

Luther, BBC1 - TV review: Please skip the clifftop cottage cliché

The cheapest tickets to see Mel Brooks' one-night London show were priced at £74.75 - and quickly sold out
Features

Best comedy of 2015: Five top comedians and one turkey

Reviews

Luther season 4 episode 1 review: The monosyllabic maverick returns

Nick Helm performs his now traditional shouty, sweary Christmas gig in London
Features

Why comedians hate Christmas

Nigella Lawson's Caesar salad
Voices

Nigella's right - you can't find moral rectitude in a bowl of rocket

Voices

Nigella's right - you can't find moral rectitude in a bowl of rocket

Nigella Lawson's Caesar salad
In the hot seat: Tom Stoppard and Howard Davies
Features

Tom Stoppard on ‘Hapgood’: 'I envy those seeing my play'

Bournemouth Council used bagpipe music to deter homeless rough sleepers
Voices

Luxury block’s £135m windows blind the rich to the homeless outside

George Egg's new show combines comedy and cookery
Features

Move over Nigella, George Egg cooks and cracks jokes

People crowd the first floor of Macy's department store as they open at midnight in 2012
Voices

The only thing more annoying than Black Friday? People who hate it

People crowd the first floor of Macy's department store as they open at midnight in 2012
Voices

The only thing more annoying than Black Friday? People who hate it

Josh Widdicombe has gone from Dartmoor to being one of the UK’s most popular stand-ups
Features

Josh Widdicombe on his journey to the top of stand-up comedy

You remember not Thatcher’s mid-Eighties power suits but the woman above them
Voices

Thatcher wouldn't have wanted her clothes hung in the V&A anyway

Voices

Is reality TV really the only way to teach young people about rape?

Jimmy Carr's new tour will include his best old jokes
Features

Jimmy Carr's greatest hits tour: genius or con?

Very few people switch their current account; 57 per cent of consumers have been with the same bank for 10 years and 37 per cent for more than 20
Voices

It's time for the Natwest porcelain pigs to go to the slaughterhouse

Fry has announced that he is stepping down as the host of QI
Voices

Modern TV series are outstaying their welcome

Brett Goldstein stars in the new superhero rom-com, 'Superbob'
Features

Meet Superbob, a British superhero with a big heart

Dawn French
Reviews

According to Yes, by Dawn French: Affirmative action from French

Noel Fielding: Cult comedy status
People

Noel Fielding on children, Milligan, and the end of The Mighty Boosh

Branching out: Tanya Moodie
Features

Tanya Moodie on being a black fortysomething actress and single mother

Steve Coogan’s memoir skips over his scandal-ridden years
Reviews

Easily Distracted, review: Plenty for Alan Partridge fans to relish

Reviews

Easily Distracted, review: Plenty for Alan Partridge fans to relish

Steve Coogan’s memoir skips over his scandal-ridden years
Getty Images
Voices

Sort out affordable childcare and we won’t need ‘granny leave’

Reviews

Michael McIntyre tells audience: 'Feel free to applaud!'

Mean Girls' Regina George (centre), played by Rachel McAdams, is the "meanest" high school character of all time, according to Sky Q research.
Voices

Peeple: a new way for the internet to destroy your life

Desiree Burch
Comedy

Funny Women: Desiree Burch takes the cake

Desiree Burch
Comedy

Funny Women: Desiree Burch takes the cake

Vicky Featherstone says female playwrights feel angry that their work is scrutinised differently to men’s
Comment

Strong women do not deter audiences

Manchester, where a man asked to be deported from last week
Voices

I sympathise with the man who asked to be deported from Manchester

Catherine Tate and Alex Macqueen star in short dark comedy, Not Sophie's Choice
Comedy

Short films that are long on comedy

Features

Weird Al Yankovic: Prince of parody's world tour comes to Britain

Jersey boy: Mat Collishaw
Features

Mat Collishaw's new show 'In Camera': Death, sieges and crushed bugs

Anyone with a smartphone and a gripe can go to town on a restaurant
Voices

Can I get my restaurant food served on a plate for once?

Elis James is performing a series of gigs in his first language, Welsh
Comedy

Stand-up Cymru: James brings his comedy home

James Davis has been commissioned by Comedy Central to make a 10-second weekly series to be broadcast on Snapchat
Comedy

Snapchatters get the fast laugh

Deborah Frances-White has written a book about how to be stand-up comedian
Comedy

'If I go into a gig thinking I'm amazing, I will die.'

Comment

The backlash faced by Charlotte Proudman shows the true nature of

Sofie Hagen: 'I don’t do Crossfit. I have a personality.'
Edinburgh

Edinburgh Fringe 2015: The 50 best jokes

"It’s the definition of a first-world problem, but the question of when to tip still reduces me to a fumbling child."
Comment

It’s not just Côte and Bill’s who are guilty of taking their

"It’s the definition of a first-world problem, but the question of when to tip still reduces me to a fumbling child."
Comment

It’s not just Côte and Bill’s who are guilty of taking their

Joseph Morpurgo's extraordinary show sees him re-enact Desert Island Discs
Edinburgh

Who will win the Edinburgh Comedy Awards?

Aisling Bea performs her second stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh

Aisling Bea, Edinburgh Fringe review: rising star of comedy is still

Jessie Cave, Harry Potter star turned stand-up talks about her one-night stand in I Loved Her
Edinburgh

Jessie Cave, Edinburgh Fringe review: a hysterically highly strung

Joseph Morpurgo's extraordinary show sees him re-enact Desert Island Discs
Edinburgh

Who will win the Edinburgh Comedy Awards?

Aisling Bea performs her second stand-up show at the Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh

Aisling Bea, Edinburgh Fringe review: rising star of comedy is still

Jessie Cave, Harry Potter star turned stand-up talks about her one-night stand in I Loved Her
Edinburgh

Jessie Cave, Edinburgh Fringe review: a hysterically highly strung

Tez Ilyas' new comedy show takes the form of a conversion to Islam course
Edinburgh

Tez Ilyas, Edinburgh Fringe review: a witty exploration of what it

Tom Parry, better known as one third of sketch troupe Pappy's and 'Badults' has turned to stand-up
Edinburgh

Tom Parry, Edinburgh Fringe review: Pappy's and Badults star makes a

Adam Hess, who already has a large following on Twitter, makes his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with his show 'Salmon'
Edinburgh

Adam Hess, Edinburgh Fringe review: Twitter one-liner king makes an

Sam Simmons performs an hour of absurdist comedy at the Fringe
Edinburgh

Sam Simmons, Edinburgh Fringe review: The Australian absurdist

Tube workers will strike again in August
Voices

Who actually wants a 24 hour Tube? Not Uber drivers, not TfL strikers

Louise Reay is a British clown who performs only in Chinese
Edinburgh

Louise Reay, Edinburgh Fringe: comedy in Chinese, for people who don't

Comedian Jo Brand.
Edinburgh

Jo Brand, Edinburgh Fringe review: an hour of anecdotes and one-liners

Jena Friedman, a producer on the Daily Show, makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut
Edinburgh

Jena Friedman, Edinburgh Fringe review: Daily Show producer makes a

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