Category: Culture

Standup Jon Richardson on turning his dark teenage diaries into a tearjerking memoir: ‘I couldn’t sugarcoat those years’

While facing grief, illness and a very public breakup, the comic reached for his diaries – and found a happy kid who spiralled into despair. Inspired by a Nobel laureate, he wrote a frank, funny book about that boy and what he...

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‘Gay men keep my ego going – they message me all the time!’ Ed Gamble on Traitors, true love, weight loss and people-pleasing

As a Traitors obsessive, Gamble is in his element hosting its hugely popular companion show, Uncloaked. He discusses keeping the show’s secrets, edgelord comics and how he became known as a ‘mega wife guy’Ed Gamble does not like...

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When you watch the acclaimed TV drama Time, remember this: I’ve seen inside our prisons and they are just as bleak | Alex South

The show depicts prisons as places characterised by violence and isolation, with no focus on rehabilitation. It’s depressingly accurateAlex South is a former prison officer and the author of the memoir Behind These DoorsThe new...

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Masterplan review – Stanley Tucci is wasted in Amazon’s smooth-brained heist caper

A ‘family’ of criminals attempt to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in pulpy and forgettable thrillerIn the last half-decade Stanley Tucci has been a source of near-inexhaustible on- screen delight, whether making friends...

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