Comedy Archives - Trebuchet

Disenfranchised Youth: Love and Other Cults

11/03/2018

Love and Other Cults, Third Window's second collaboration with Eiji Uchida, is a quirky comedy that holds deep sadness....

Beppe Grillo is a clear example of the line between Comedy & Politics being crossed. But is that a good thing?

‘Is That Funny?’ Comedy and Politics

08/02/2018

Across the globe, the line between Comedy and Politics is growing ever more blurred. This event discusses the implications, and the punchlines, that result....

Brexit: It Was Ever Thus

24/12/2017

Prescient plotical comment from the BBC, still relevant today....

Nitwit! Egghead! Twerp! Searching for the Funniest Words

03/08/2017

Booty, booby, nitwit and hooter among the words which make us laugh most ...

Reactive, Risky, Red: Lolitics Brings Back Lefty Laughs

31/05/2017

Left turn raw topical comedy road tested for comfort...

Tragedy, How deep is your mom? tour, Liverpool

How Deep is Your Mom? (Tragedy, Live in Liverpool)

08/03/2017

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Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

06/11/2016

Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens...

Are You Ready For Parenthood? Try This Simple Test!

16/09/2016

The essential guide to whether you're ready for kids. Tongue may be slightly in cheek....

Gospel Grunge with The King of Seattle (Elvana)

10/09/2016

Elvis meets Nirvana for moshpit mashups at the O2 Academy. Uh huh....

Abuse, Song, and MS: Laughing at The Doug Anthony All Stars

01/09/2016

Brutally funny, irreverent and extremely politically incorrect....

God Shave the Queen for the Art Bastard Show

15/05/2016

West country wit and the sharp lancet of satire converge on the world of conceptual art. The Art Bastard show launches on YouTube...

Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan

20/01/2016

Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm...

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)

18/01/2016

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...

Quick to Laugh: Genetic Trait or Witless Imbecile?

03/06/2015

People with the short allele of 5-HTTLPR showed greater positive emotional expressions...

The Real Deal : M. Patrik Romanskylov [Interview]

06/06/2014

I’m the real deal. I had to add so many ‘Posts’ before the ‘Modern’ to make that distinction clear...

Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs : Interview

16/01/2014

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....

A promotional picture of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, amended

Charlie Brooker is Rubbish – A Meditation

09/01/2014

Brooker’s nosedive into Planet Shite was neither inevitable nor certain. We all get older, but we don’t have to get old....

Total Kunt [Interview]

14/12/2013

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....

Kunt and the Gang : Long Island, Rickmansworth

07/11/2013

An evening of total past the knuckle filth for one evening only at Long Island, Rickmansworth....

Trailer Park Boys come to UK

31/01/2013

The Trailer Park Boys stage show comes to Hammersmith Apollo for one night only on Friday 3rd May. Be ready....

House of Burlesque: Shipwrecked [Review]

22/11/2012

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...

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