The Definitive Guide to Comedy
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bron Lewis knows her demographic: teachers and moms. The Australian comedian has experience with both, having formerly taught high school and currently still raising three children (two daughters, 12 and 10; and a five-year-old son). Plus a new golden retriever, a not-so-new husband who’s been working from home since …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “If you’re thinking, ‘Huh?!,’ then you are correct.” On the Greek temple at Delphi reads three maxims that come from the oracle: “Know thyself, Nothing in excess, Surety then ruin.” These popular proverbs hang on signs strung up behind Lara Ricote onstage, and she bounds back and forth among …
Dan Wilbur is a comedian and author of two humor books, “How Not To Read” and “Never Flirt with Puppy Killers.” He released his first stand-up comedy album, Husband Material, in 2023, has been featured on CollegeHumor, McSweeney’s and Someecards, where he also worked as the Ecards editor. Wilbur sat down with …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Harriet Richardson is a performance artist, not a stand-up comedian. And yet she found her life and art colliding with comedy after one performance piece of hers went viral, when she met up for more than 100 blind dates over Zoom on a single Valentine’s Day. The media attention …
⭐⭐⭐½ “Underneath these clothes I’m sexy I swear!” Sure, in the Pleasance bunkers this Fringe she may be dressing like a parkour boy, or “the Haim sister they keep locked up in the basement,” but you’ve seen Ele McKenzie in the limelight on the Northern Irish sitcom, Funboys, as the …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ How can a performer pull off a fast-paced high-energy character showcase with a broken arm? Let Jonathan Oldfield show you how, in a fun hour that includes some clever bits of interactivity that allow him to also show you his improv chops. The improv comes through his adaptation of …
⭐⭐⭐½ For having a decade in the trenches of stand-up comedy, Bella Hull is still only in her 20s, and yet already is enjoying great success. She’s a writer for SNL UK and in the past year has appeared on both Have I Got News For You as well as …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I’m gay and insufferable. I’m aware!” But what’s a bipolar nonbinary bisexual dressed as a nun attending a LARP wedding in rural Australia to do when they’ve forgotten their medication? On the bright side, Scout Boxall notes that without medication or proper WiFi, it really helps set the mood …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ You may have noticed Amy Matthews as new character DC Rita Oswald on the long-running British TV series EastEnders. In real life, however, Matthews finds herself living in a different sort of soap opera. The sort where her ex-boyfriends keep getting sober after dating her. The sort where her …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Australian comedian Lou Wall may be dating a short king, but they’re looking for someone to look up to, literally. Their “farm to table feminism” gaslighting men who are 6-foot-1 by telling them they’re 5-11 may be all good and fun and funny, but Wall is worried about their …
