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‘It’s like failing your driving test every week’: SNL UK stars on returning to one of the most brutal jobs in comedy

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Despite some early scepticism, the UK’s first series of the legendary live sketch show was a joyous success. As it returns for a second run, its cast tell Lauren Morris about the high-octane nature of putting on a fresh, punchy night of entertainment every Saturday night

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Traitors with crabs to the Prince Andrew Plan: the 10 best SNL UK sketches so far

Sexy dad swap, the anti-ageing cream so good everyone will think your husband should be in prison, and the long con to make King Charles look good … you can’t say Saturday Night Live UK hasn’t gone there! Here are the best skits

The Guardian - UK

Saturday Night Live UK takes aim at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in scathing opening sketch

Comedy skit imagined the former prince as part of a long-term plan to improve King Charles' reputation by contrast

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‘How could this be anything other than funny?!’ Behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live UK

SNL is a US comedy institution – can a British version rise to the challenge of finding the funny in our comparatively beige politicians every week? We speak to the team hand-picked to do just that

The Guardian - UK

Saturday Night Live UK: Meet the cast taking centre stage on the British SNL

The cast is made up of TV newcomers and stars you’ll recognise from the likes of ‘Big Boys’ and ‘Taskmaster’

The Independent UK

Pearl Mackie delves into murder: best podcasts of the week

The Doctor Who actor reimagines a 1907 killing with Ghosts’ Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Taskmaster’s Emma Sidi, plus a look at the factories that force people to perpetrate scams

The Guardian - UK

Brian and Maggie: who plays who in the new Margaret Thatcher drama?

The show, which tells the story of a contentious TV interview that ended Thatcher’s career, is out soon

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Emma Sidi is Sue Gray at Soho Theatre review: Taskmaster star delivers absurdist portrait of Labour's ex-chief of staff

4/5 The comedian’s gossipy, hun culture Sue Gray sounds like she works behind the bar at the Queen Vic, dishing dirt on ‘goofball’ Rishi and ‘dripping in rizz’ Kier

Evening Standard

‘Oh god I’m Sue Gray – don’t, I’m cringing’: comic Emma Sidi brings the embattled civil servant to the stage

After Starstruck and Taskmaster, the new project sees Sidi play a profane, lowbrow version of Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff. She explains why her latest comedy creation is breaking-news proof

The Guardian - UK

How to watch Taskmaster season 18 online and from anywhere

If it's worth doing at all, it probably isn't on this show. The art of the inane as television gold. Here's how you can watch Taskmaster season 18 online anywhere in the world...

WhatToWatch

Emma Sidi Is Sue Gray review – bureaucratic blabbermouth’s lurid disclosures

Downing Street’s chief of staff is imagined to be gossipy and gregarious in this wickedly silly show from the Starstruck comedian

The Guardian - UK

Six of the best political shows you need to see at this year's Fringe

THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe has officially launched, with more than 3500 shows planned across the month.

The National (Scotland)

Fringe benefits: 10 of the best shows to catch at this year’s Edinburgh festival

From ruminations on life, love and being Keir Starmer to dance-theatre unpacking toxic masculinity, here’s our pick of 2024’s ‘Burgh necessities

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows

A one-woman 90s romcom, boundary-testing standups and a new Taskmaster contestant make our comedy critic’s list of the fringe’s most promising tickets

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Surprise election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts

For this year’s fringe, performers will be rapidly updating their shows to reflect the outcome at the ballot box

The Guardian - UK

Starstruck series three review – Rose Matafeo’s romcom ditches the love story (and is better than ever)

This is no longer a will-they-won’t-they series. Instead, it focuses on the joys of friendship – and becomes more enjoyable, relatable and far more moving

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Where To Watch Starstruck Season 3 Online And Stream Rose Matafeo Rom-Com From Anywhere For Free

Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning Rose Matafeo is back with hit Rom-Com. Here's exactly where to watch Starstruck Season 3 online from anywhere and for free on BBC iPlayer and Max.

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Starstruck season 3: release date, cast, plot and everything we know

Starstruck season 3 will return to BBC Three. But what's in store for Jessie and Tom this time around?

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Death in Paradise season 13 full season guide: plot, cast, and more

Death in Paradise season 13 starred Ralf Little as DI Neville Parker...

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Mayflies; Without Sin; Prince Andrew: The Musical; Marie Antoinette

The BBC’s drama of lost youth and male friendship is a bittersweet triumph; Vicky McClure and Johnny Harris are back with a twist; and contrasting tales of two royals

Evening Standard

Prince Andrew: The Musical on Channel 4 review - a right royal laugh

The satirical musical nobody asked Father Christmas for, but you’re getting anyway is... actually quite good

Wales Online

Prince Andrew TV musical will see Harry Enfield as Tony Blair

Emily Maitlis will be played by actress and comedian Emma Sidi, known for Starstruck and Stath Lets Flats

The Guardian - UK

Alan Partridge: Stratagem review – two hours of tremendous silliness

In a joyful return to the stage, Steve Coogan’s deathless alter ego delivers a motivational lecture he keeps on derailing

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