Dough: David Lescot’s play weighs a man’s life in his bank balance

We follow our loser hero from tooth fairy credits to funeral debts in a comedy of financial errors exploring money as a transactional link through all relationshipsThe award-winning French author, director and composer David Lescot’s play Dough is all …

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Celya AB: ‘I got a couple of laughs and couldn’t think about anything else for weeks’

The standup on who makes her laugh, what she misses most about home, and learning to tune out bad advice from drunk peopleWhat is your new comedy show about?Moving from Paris to Birmingham without a plan in 2014, trying to fit in with “Britishness”, an…

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C’est Drôle! Netflix’s Standing Up is a love letter to Paris’s comedy scene

The showrunner of Call My Agent! is back with a winning series about France’s young comics and how their onstage routines and real lives intersectIs there a gap in the market for an ensemble TV show about comedians’ lives? At least since Seinfeld, ther…

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Allez les standups! Are French comics gutsier than their British rivals?

They’re inspired by Charlie Hedbo and tell jokes that would get British comedians cancelled. Our writer spends a week watching French standupsHow Greece’s theatre staged triumph from tragedyLast dance for Berlin’s 56-hour party people?Poland’s world-be…

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Episode #184: Kev Adams

Kev Adams is France’s biggest young comedy star, with 6 million Twitter followers and another 5 million checking out his Instagram. He was performing one-man shows in Paris while still a teenager, and starred in 692 episodes of the TV series, Soda. He also co-starred in two hit movies in France, Serial Teachers, and The […]

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John Oliver Warns French Voters: “Don’t Make the Same Mistake That We Did”

Here’s a clip from last night’s Last Week Tonight, where John Oliver takes a closer look at the upcoming French presidential election and the rising popularity of the very Trump-like candidate Marine Le Pen. “One of the frustrating things about watching this unfold from America is this feels a little like déjà vu: a potentially […]

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