Comedy

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Theatre 

Drawing room dalliances: discover a 'lost' Jane Austen novel in an evening of improvised comedy

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Festival 

Music, theatre, comedy, literature, dance and more, all in one fabulous festival: the Latitude 2019 line-up is here

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Talks 

Stimulating discussion meets first class comedy and music at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in Hereford's Hay-on-Wye

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Theatre 

Looking for some late-night Sunday entertainment to battle those Monday blues? Phoenix Arts Club have you covered with a programme of cabaret and comedy

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Netflix 

In Netflix's After Life, Ricky Gervais plays a man who stops being nice after his wife (Kerry Godliman) dies. Now he always tells the brutal, impolite truth

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TV 

In Derry Girls series 2, Erin (Saoirse-Monica Jackson) and her friends attend a peace initiative between Catholic and Protestant schools. But they're only in it for the lads...

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Theatre 

Explosive and timely, this new play about Boris Johnson will be rewritten every night

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Cinema 

An upcoming gender-flipped remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels follows the hilarious adventures of two female con-artists

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Talks 

After seven years away, Jerry Seinfeld is coming back to London for four dates, reinvigorating his magnanimous stand-up career

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Kids 

Ryan Reynolds voices everyone's favourite electric yellow fluff-ball as a new Pokémon cinematic universe launches with an offbeat bang

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TV 

In This Time with Alan Partridge, Alan (Steve Coogan) thinks he's bounced back into the BBC – co-presenting a magazine show. But he's clearly out of his depth...

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TV 

In Pure episode 2, Marnie (Charly Clive) still struggles with her sexually intrusive OCD, but tries to find herself through Charlie (Joe Cole), a recovering porn addict

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Themes 

The UK's fastest-growing arts extravaganza returns with underground parties, comedy and theatre at The Vaults Festival 2019

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TV 

In Pure, Channel 4's new sex-infused comedy-drama, Marnie (Charly Clive) suffers an especially intrusive form of OCD. She hops on a coach to London in the hope of finding answers

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Theatre 

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical brings spontaneous song and silliness to the West End's The Other Palace

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Netflix 

Get ready to laugh, cry, and be seduced by this new hilarious Netflix comedy Sex Education. Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson star

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TV 

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan come back to their hilarious Channel 4 comedy for its fourth and possibly final run

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Cinema 

The stars of Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, are absorbing in the new Laurel and Hardy biopic following the comedy duo's 1953 tour

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Theatre 

Comedy stars unite in aid of the refugee crisis at Choose Laughs Festive Special

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Kids 

Based on the book by award-winning David Walliams, Awful Auntie fills the holidays with wackiness

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Musicals 

Del Boy, Rodney and co. tread the boards as Only Fools and Horses: The Musical comes to Theatre Royal Haymarket

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Gigs 

Showcasing London's diverse and international comedy scene, Comedy Carnival is bringing a guaranteed good time to Soho

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Cinema 

Gaspar Noé returns with Climax, another piece of provocation, blending sex, drugs and faux-philosophical musings

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Cinema 

From Now You See Me 2 director Jon M. Chu, Crazy Rich Asians is a rom-com fantasy that tackles class, family, and lavish lifestyles

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Cinema 

In The Spy Who Dumped Me, Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are the slapstick pair taking on spies galore in what has always been a man's world

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Things to do 

Dad jokes, scat jokes, surreal jokes, cabaret, drag and improvised murder mysteries: what the best London comedy clubs have to offer

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Cinema 

Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett and Vanessa Kirby join Tom Cruise for Mission: Impossible — Fallout, the stunning sixth instalment of the action film series

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Cinema 

In Hotel Artemis, Jodie Foster tops off a cast including Sofia Boutella and Sterling K. Brown in a dark yet lighthearted film set in a deeply criminal future L.A.

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Gigs 

Want some advice on your latest novel? Well, comedian Christopher Bliss is going to give it to you anyway

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Cinema 

14 years after the original comes the sequel to the finest animation film from the Pixar studios: Incredibles 2 arrives with new villains and a fresh sense of relevance

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Cinema 

Swelling with small screen British talent, Swimming with Men sees Rob Brydon fight his mid-life crisis by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team

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Cinema 

From the fun to the feelgood to the fast and furious, here are the best blockbusters of 2018 coming out this summer