Comedy

I loved every second of it

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto at the Edinburgh Fringe reviewed

Why is politically correct comedy so depressing?

At a fascist evening, nobody was decent enough to openly express their white supremacy

Skip the political cold-open every week

Is it because he is black?

Comics should stop trying to be activists, and commentators, and philosophers

Godfrey Elfwick is deeply troubled by Konstantin Kisin’s reaction to a London university’s perfectly reasonable request

Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest series Who Is America? isn’t funny. But then, nor was his terrible 2016 movie The Brothers Grimsby. Nor was his rubbish 2012 film The Dictator. Nor, let’s be honest, were his classic original characters Borat, Brüno or even Ali G. Obviously, they had their moments: the ‘mankini’ — that bizarre, electric green, giant-thong-like swim wear worn by Borat; the classic late-Nineties catchphrase ‘Is it because I is black?’ And sure it must have taken some nerve — even in character — to explain to a clearly impatient and unimpressed Donald Trump his business plan for some anti-drip ice-cream gloves. But how often, even at his best,