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How we laughed in 2021! Yes, the year was plagued by Covid, fires and floods… but it did throw up some weird and wonderful...
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As European governments moved to lock down their countries to curb the spread of the coronavirus, citizens turned to gallows humour to deal with...
Entertainment
An early international hit for the French playwright, known for her razor-sharp ridicule of bourgeois urbanites and their values, ‘Art’ has become a modern...
Entertainment
Director Jackie Maxwell does perfect justice to Letts’ 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning black comedy, which opened last night. It’s a brutal, blistering portrait of a...
Entertainment
While Second City‘s She the People: The Resistance Continues isn’t exactly a sequel, it’s a fun all-female comedy revue that offers the “more of...
Entertainment
And the comedy institution’s latest Toronto revue does get a few great digs at the city’s famously unreliable transit system. The sharpest cut comes...
Entertainment
It’s not that It’s a Wild, Rowdy, Wonderful Life, which opened this week, doesn’t have its funny moments, with a talented cast (the touring...
World
A Spanish comedian appeared in court on Monday for having blown his nose on the national flag in a television sketch, the latest case...
Entertainment
Review: Second City’s all-female revue delivers laughs, strong message (Includes first-hand account)
It’s also a shameful myth that feminists have no sense of humour – one easily discredited by Second City‘s new all-female sketch revue, She...
World
Even when Soviet tanks invaded their country on August 21, 1968, to wipe out a pro-democracy movement, Czechoslovaks managed to maintain their unique sense...