Despite recent waves of kitsch nostalgia for it, British comedy in the ’70s was, for the most part, truly horrible. From stages to small and large screens, demeaning and predictable stereotypes of ...

Over thirty years ago, a new wave of stand-ups spearheaded the Alternative Comedy movement, marking themselves out as different from the safe television turns, the Oxbridge satirists, and the racist ...

Angus Deayton traces the development of a new wave of British comedy. After years of sedate, "safe" comedy, TV humor took on a sharper, sometimes harsher edge thanks to a strong upsurge in comedy ...

German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn and Isy Suttie join tonight's line up of original comedians. Stewart Lee meets them backstage. Chaser Paul Sinha is joined by David O'Doherty, Henning Wehn, and ...

Mary Beth Barone’s Galaxy Brain exposes mainstream comedy’s persistent misogyny … but feminist comedians have always created stages, traditions and audiences beyond the industry’s narrow field of ...