Comedy
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself
The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching
Trusting Dave Chappelle
The comedian’s 8:46 show is a stand-up special with few jokes
Plagiarism in comedy – homage or theft?
How a hugely popular American satirical show ripped off an online British comedian
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
Latex memories
Spitting Image (BritBox)
What Spitting Image did to British politics
As Spitting Image returns to our screens, its original impact has not been forgotten
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
