Ty Segall: Ty Segall review – gnarly, gratifying garage rock star
(Drag City)Ty Segall is suitably prolific for a garage rockstar – he has put out a solo album almost every year for the past decade, not to mention a raft of collaborations. Also in keeping with the...
View ArticleNick Mohammed: ‘I secretly write down my wife’s jokes’
The Drifters star on the things that make him laugh the mostProbably Daniel Kitson. But I remember crying with laughter the first time I saw Phil Nichol and, most recently, Colin Hoult as Anna Mann,...
View ArticleApple Tree Yard: is this the first honest portrayal of rape on TV?
Unlike most dramas, Apple Tree Yard shows the true horror of sexual violence From Downton Abbey to Happy Valley, Westworld to Game of Thrones, rape is now a ubiquitous TV trope. That fact is deeply...
View ArticleIs Migos’ Bad And Boujee the new mannequin challenge?
Rap memes are still taking over while Smash Mouth set the internet alight for the first time since, well, ever, and the Young Pope is a bit too young for someRelated: Of Muppets and millennials: Evil...
View ArticleThursday’s best TV: The Great Pottery Throw Down; Parenting for Idiots
A second series of the home-potters challenge gets underway; celebs spill the best stories from bringing up their childrenSara Cox hosts a new series of the clay-based contest. Making like Demi Moore...
View ArticleFufanu: Sports review – middling second outing by Icelandic post-punk...
(One Little Indian) There’s something slightly irrational about a lot of post-punk revivalism. Apparently unable to capture the sense of instability, the intensity of emotion, and the sheer levels of...
View ArticleRichard Herring: ‘Rick And Morty is the most brilliant TV show I've ever seen'
The comedian, writer and blogger on what makes him laugh the mostWatching Billy Connolly at the Hammersmith Apollo in the late 90s was a masterclass of long-form comedy. I also shared a hotel lift with...
View ArticleWednesday’s best TV: MacGyver, Roots, The Boy Who Grew a New Brain
The secret agent and the slave drama get rebooted. Plus: young Noah has defied the oddsAngus MacGyver was the mullet-sporting 1980s secret agent with such a pathological aversion to firing guns he...
View ArticleSusan Calman: ‘When I’m feeling down I watch clips of cats jumping on children’
The Glaswegian standup and Radio 4 regular on the things that make her laugh the mostBilly Connolly. I’ve never managed to see him live but when I was younger I had a tape of one of his gigs which I...
View ArticleThursday’s best TV: June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend; Russia’s Hooligan Army
A birthday celebration of the actor who made Dot Cotton one of Britain’s best TV characters, and a shocking film on Russia’s terrifying new strain of hooliganA birthday celebration of the actor who...
View ArticleSyd: Fin review – subtly tearing up the R&B playbook
With spellbinding complexity, the former Odd Future star inverts the genre’s norms in a debut that is sensual, soulful and astonishingly accomplishedYou could read it as an ironic reference to her...
View ArticleFenech-Soler: Zilla review – energetic but unexciting electro-pop
(So Recordings) With their namesake, bassist Daniel Fenech-Soler, having exited the band last year alongside fellow co-founder Andrew Lindsay, these days the Northamptonshire outfit operate solely as a...
View ArticleJon Richardson: ‘The first series of The League Of Gentlemen blew my mind’
The standup and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown team captain on what makes him laugh the mostLouis CK. The pressure was on as it was the first date for my future wife and me. We had a lovely time, save...
View ArticleTwisted spine-chiller Inside No 9: ‘A laugh is the same as a scream’
As the darkly funny anthology series returns, creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith explain why comedy and horror is a marriage made in hellRelated: Inside No 9: The Devil of Christmas review –...
View ArticleThursday’s best TV: Born Too White; Has Political Correctness Gone Mad?
Absorbing documentary explores the plight of albino people in east Africa; unhelpful polemic from Trevor Phillips. Plus: new Dutch drama The SwingersTypically absorbing This World documentary,...
View ArticleKing Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Flying Microtonal Banana review – not as...
(Heavenly)The first of five albums the Melbourne outfit are set to release in 2017 (frontman Stu Mackenzie is “no good at chilling”), Flying Microtonal Banana contains nine tracks of chugging...
View ArticleSeann Walsh: ‘I wrote a line for The Thick Of It – it's probably my proudest...
The fun-loving standup and panel show regular on the things that make him laugh the most, from Partridge to sausageThe Thick Of It. “Wake up and smell the cock,” is one of the best lines ever written;...
View ArticleArt attack: will @TrumpDraws draw fire from the White House?
From Trump-trolling to an all-dancing, all-gifing Winnie The Pooh, here’s what’s been tickling and comforting the web this monthRelated: Hillary Clinton tweets '3-0' as Trump 'SEE YOU IN COURT' becomes...
View ArticleDeep Throat Choir: Be OK review – sweetly subversive choral pop
(Bella Union)Under the guidance of celebrity choirmaster Gareth Malone and his hit TV shows, choirs – from NHS to Military Wives – have made a significant dent in the charts this decade. Deep Throat...
View ArticleRussell Kane: ‘The funniest heckle I've ever had? Nick Grimshaw!'
The flamboyant standup on the things that make him laugh the most, from cult books and Tim Vine to reindeer’s blood pancakes“Fuck off Nick Grimshaw”. Wherever I go, people angrily insist that I am he....
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