Comedy
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
Sean Lock – the comedian’s comedian
Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”
Rosie Cackle
Veteran comedienne
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Bring back the fun!
Alexander Larman writes an open letter to the artistic directors of theatres
A tasty tester for a better year
The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship
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
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works