Comedy
Society
Disenfranchised Youth: Love and Other Cults
Love and Other Cults, Third Window’s second collaboration with Eiji Uchida, is a quirky comedy that holds deep sadness. (read more)
Comedy
News
‘Is That Funny?’ Comedy and Politics
Across the globe, the line between Comedy and Politics is growing ever more blurred. This event discusses the implications, and the punchlines, that result. (read more)
Society
Brexit: It Was Ever Thus
Prescient plotical comment from the BBC, still relevant today. (read more)
News
Nitwit! Egghead! Twerp! Searching for the Funniest Words
Booty, booby, nitwit and hooter among the words which make us laugh most (read more)
Society
Reactive, Risky, Red: Lolitics Brings Back Lefty Laughs
Left turn raw topical comedy road tested for comfort (read more)
Sound
How Deep is Your Mom? (Tragedy, Live in Liverpool)
have seen many things in my years of gigging. Some were merely strange. Others, I would have put down to other things influencing me if there weren’t any photographic proof: people suspending themselves with meathooks (read more)
Sound
Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens
Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens (read more)
Society
Are You Ready For Parenthood? Try This Simple Test!
The essential guide to whether you’re ready for kids. Tongue may be slightly in cheek. (read more)
Sound
Gospel Grunge with The King of Seattle (Elvana)
Elvis meets Nirvana for moshpit mashups at the O2 Academy. Uh huh. (read more)
Society
Abuse, Song, and MS: Laughing at The Doug Anthony All Stars
Brutally funny, irreverent and extremely politically incorrect. (read more)
Events
God Shave the Queen for the Art Bastard Show
West country wit and the sharp lancet of satire converge on the world of conceptual art. The Art Bastard show launches on YouTube (read more)
Society
Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan
Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm (read more)
Society
The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)
Handling irony is like handling plutonium: you must be careful that the radiation doesn’t kill you, or at least rob you of the ability to make meanings and give force to ideas (read more)
News
Quick to Laugh: Genetic Trait or Witless Imbecile?
People with the short allele of 5-HTTLPR showed greater positive emotional expressions (read more)
Art
The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]
I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear (read more)
Society
Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs : Interview
Can a woman be beautiful and funny? I have heard many intelligent men say no, but I totally disagree. But the road to comedy fame is decidedly harder. (read more)
Society
Charlie Brooker is Rubbish – A Meditation
Brooker’s nosedive into Planet Shite was neither inevitable nor certain. We all get older, but we don’t have to get old. (read more)
Sound
Total Kunt [Interview]
I think my song ‘Santa’s Sack’ would be perfect for the John Lewis Christmas ad campaign but there seems to be a big industry conspiracy against me for some reason. (read more)
Events
Kunt and the Gang : Long Island, Rickmansworth
An evening of total past the knuckle filth for one evening only at Long Island, Rickmansworth. (read more)
News
Trailer Park Boys come to UK
The Trailer Park Boys stage show comes to Hammersmith Apollo for one night only on Friday 3rd May. Be ready. (read more)
Society
House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]
The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a means of feminists taking control of their sexuality? (read more)