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The Culture Whisper team has picked its favourite comedies now available to stream. From Fleabag to Parks and Recreation, this hilarious selection will keep you smiling through lockdown
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From a teenager offering advice in Sex Education to a middle-aged couple reigniting their sex life in Wanderlust, here are the best sex comedies available on Netflix
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Mischief Theatre Company's farcical tale of theatrical disaster continues to delight on the West End
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In Katherine Ryan's semi-autobiographical sitcom about single motherhood, her alter-ego Katherine is desperate for a second child after the first one, Olive (Katy Byrne), turned out so well
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Steve Carell and Greg Daniels (The Office) create a new workplace comedy, about a team establishing a military Space Force. John Malkovich and Lisa Kudrow co-star
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Now is the time to look back at those neverending film-watching lists – but sometimes you need a surefire hit of laughter. Here's the best comedy specials on Netflix
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Mae Martin's loosely autobiographical romantic comedy series sees a recovering stand up comedian start a relationship with the previously heterosexual George
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It's no longer an unsubstantiated rumour: a Friends reunion special is coming to HBO's new streaming service, HBO Max. Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, et al, are returning
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Music, theatre, comedy, literature, dance and more, all in one fabulous festival: the Latitude 2021 line-up is here
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In season 2, Otis (Asa Butterfield) enjoys his new-found sex drive, Maeve (Emma Mackey) receives a visit from her recovering mother, and Moordale School is infected with chlamydia
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A storm is brewing in Manor, a new dark comedy by Moira Buffini coming to the National Theatre
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Theatre
Richard Bean, writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, is back at the National Theatre with a historical comedy set during the Battle of Britain
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Netflix
Paul Rudd delivers a poignant double-performance in this existential Netflix comedy drama, in which the apathetic Miles comes face to face with his doppelgänger. Aisling Bea also stars
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TV
In Channel 4's This Way Up, Aisling Bea plays an English-language teacher who leans on her sister Shona (Sharon Horgan) after a nervous breakdown
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Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan star in the new Channel 4 comedy drama This Way Up, coming this Thursday. We attended a Q&A for the show at the BFI Southbank
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In episode 2, Major Major (Lewis Pullman) is made a Major, Yo-Yo (Christopher Abbot) tries to get out of flying again, and Colonel Cathcart (Kyle Chandler) raises the mission cap
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Kids
In Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Ryan Reynolds voices a new iteration of the yellow, fluffy conjurer of lightning. But this time, he's an amnesiac detective who's addicted to coffee
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Theatre
Drawing room dalliances: discover a 'lost' Jane Austen novel in an evening of improvised comedy
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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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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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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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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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After seven years away, Jerry Seinfeld is coming back to London for four dates, reinvigorating his magnanimous stand-up career
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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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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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The UK's fastest-growing arts extravaganza returns with underground parties, comedy and theatre at The Vaults Festival 2019
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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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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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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