Comedy

In fact, the whole album is beautiful, and my favourite song on it isn’t comedy at all. I saw the show Love you, Hate Bastards in Edinburgh last year and it made me laugh and then cry hysterically, which is maybe not comedy, but is my favourite kind of comedy. I thought it was quite funny in retrospect that it had made me cry so much, so made a friend play the album in the car on a long drive, and was telling her when the sad song came up that it was the one that made me cry, and then I cried hysterically again in her car, to everyone’s great embarrassment. … [Read more...] about Alice Fraser: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

10. The best freestylers in the world It’s obvious that Aunty Donna rule the internet comedy space but everyone knows we are friends so I didn’t want to put them in for fear of being biased. Unfortunately the perfection of Montaigne’s soaring vocals and their rambling verses has forced my hand and so now you have to watch this. … [Read more...] about Michelle Brasier: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

Right behind them in 16th place is actor and activist John Boyega, 28, with £17m. His Star Wars fortune has been boosted by roles in Pacific Rim Uprising and Watership Down, plus a recently signed deal with Netflix to develop films focusing on African content.   … [Read more...] about Heat’s Rich List 2020: Jodie Comer is named for the first time after earning £4.9m while Ed Sheeran RETAINS his crown as the richest British star under 30 with a whopping £210m fortune

6. Atlantique (2019) French-Senegalese actor-turned-director Mati Diop created a modern classic of poetic cinema in Atlantique, tapping into African cinema’s twin traditions of realism and fable with a compelling docu-supernatural enigma, a winter’s tale of a film with a dimension of strangeness unselfconsciously baked into the movie’s ostensible normality. Ada is a young woman in Dakar engaged to be married to the wealthy, obnoxious Omar, but she is in love with Souleiman, an exploited labourer who is thinking of making the dangerous migrant journey overseas. Ada, ironically, is on the verge of a far better life than any Souleiman can dream of – that of a rich married woman. Then something strange and unexpected happens. Souleiman’s behaviour is upsetting and mysterious, sending Ada a text asking her to meet in the middle of the night; is it real, or a sinister trap? Atlantique is about the return of the repressed, or the suppressed: the spirit of … [Read more...] about 20 best African films – ranked!

Another striking example highlighted is a former Anglo-Bavarian brewery in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, said to have been the country’s first lager brewery after the 1830 Beerhouse Act liberalised the brewing and sale of beer. Part of the site was converted into a trading estate but the rest has lain vacant for many years and is in poor condition. … [Read more...] about Hospital and circus theatre among ‘most at-risk’ listed buildings