‘One-off talent’: UK comedy composer Steve Brown dies aged 66

Hit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY!The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny Henry, has died aged 66 from lung disease, his agent announced….

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‘One-off talent’: UK comedy composer Steve Brown dies aged 69

Hit composer scored TV and radio as well as the stage shows X-Factor and TONY!The British comedy composer Steve Brown, who collaborated with the likes of Harry Hill, Steve Coogan and Lenny Henry, has died aged 69 from lung disease, his agent announced….

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The Horne Section’s Christmas Shindig review – peas and harmony from Taskmaster star

Indigo at the O2, LondonAlex Horne’s musical comedy band serve up peachy and puerile puns in an endearing, occasionally festive showThe Horne Section. A Christmas show. You can see the logic. They’re a jolly bunch, Alex Horne is forever pulling goodies…

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The Horne Section’s Christmas Shindig review – peas and harmony from Taskmaster star

Indigo at the O2, LondonAlex Horne’s musical comedy band serve up peachy and puerile puns in an endearing, occasionally festive showThe Horne Section. A Christmas show. You can see the logic. They’re a jolly bunch, Alex Horne is forever pulling goodies…

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Is it time to embrace badly behaved audiences? | Eva Wiseman

There’s always a lot of harrumphing about loud eating, talking, arriving late, sex and even throwing things at the stage… But isn’t a bawdy audience is what a live performance is all about?I hadn’t realised what a very, very good girl I was until I cau…

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Watch Jack Black perform “Peaches” live at the Hollywood Bowl

Exclusive: Peaches has become the unexpected hit song from Super Mario Bros Movie. As sung by Jack Black, the song… MORE
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‘I like to slag off the headliner’: what is it like to do standup at a music festival?

Comedians Sophie Duker and Jacob Hawley discuss how to draw revellers away from pop stars while Glastonbury’s Charlotte Lang explains what it takes to win over the cabaret tentYou’re in a massive tent. People are walking in and out, chatting, spilling …

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Watch Tenacious D cover “Wicked Games”

Tenacious D are back with another cover! This time, Jack Black and Kyle Gass are taking in Chris Issak’s Wicked… MORE
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Rachel Parris: ‘Standup would have terrified me – the piano was a good comfort blanket’

The comic on hecklers, pre-show rituals, Jane Austen puns and her childhood heroesWhy did you get into musical comedy?I did musical comedy first because that was all I could do! I’d written and performed songs since I was young, so it was the most obvi…

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Tim Heidecker: ‘I’m trying to be an antidote to the toxic side of comedy’

Best known for his inventive work with Tim and Eric, the absurdist comic talks about playing it straight as a ‘legit’ singer-songwriter, and his newest creation: a ‘belligerent and terrible’ standup comedianGrowing up, Tim Heidecker didn’t know who he …

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