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Last Laugh at Dead Man’s Wire: Week in Rave Reviews | culture

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Last one laughing in the UKPrime VideoSummarize in a sentence The triumphant return of the tirelessly funny TV show featuring comedians trying to make each other laugh - while keeping a straight face.What our reviewer said “This series leaves me unable to laugh at least once every episode.” Rachel AroestiRead the full reviewFurther reading Final Laugh Contestant Dianne Morgan's Honest Playlist: 'I was fascinated by Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so I had great taste'Choose from…

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“Her warmth filled the kitchen every morning”: The magic – and perseverance – of Jenny Murray | Jenny Murray

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jenni Murray,Television & radio,Radio,BBC,Radio 4,Radio industry,Culture,Women,Breast cancer,Media,Society,Hillary Clinton,Margaret Thatcher,Marriage,Feminism,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Before taking over Woman's Hour in 1987, Jenny Murray was the presenter of the Today programme. She joined the BBC in Bristol in 1973, becoming a television correspondent and presenter on the South Today programme, arriving with strong news credentials. But the day in the 1980s was inherently sexist – men did politics, women did the rest – and the format was too young for it.The woman's watch, on the other hand,…

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‘The dream is to be a standup, but everyone who knows me says: Please don’t’ – Riz Ahmed on chaos, comedy, and defying categorisation | Riz Ahmed

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Riz Ahmed,Television,Film,Culture,Television & radio,Comedy films,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Riz Ahmed was multitasking. It was February in London, and the actor was doing an interview with a men’s magazine en route to collect his kid from school. So far, so starry. “Here’s the reality,” says Ahmed today, palms slamming down hard on the table. “I’m late for the school run. I’m stuck in traffic. I’m meant to be at my laptop, but I’m having to do it on my phone, in my car. I’m double parked…

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From Project Hail Mary to Saturday Night Live UK: your complete entertainment guide for next week | culture

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaHail Mary projectOut nowNovelist Andy Weir's brand of comical, semi-plausible sci-fi gave rise to Ridley Scott's The Martian - and now Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are hoping to repeat something of the same success. Ryan Gosling is the hero of a story in which a science teacher wakes up on a spaceship on a desperate mission in deep space.La GraziaOut nowItalian star Tony Servillo reunites with director Paolo Sorrentino for another collaboration that explores the…

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Something Very Bad Will Happen: The Duffer Brothers’ horror series is extremely terrifying | television

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Horror (TV) ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I heard that the Duffer brothers, creators of Stranger Things, had a new series on Netflix, I knew I had to watch it — but I wasn't excited. I think identical twins making motion pictures are inherently scary, even when these productions aren't labeled Something Very Bad Will Happen. My nervous system doesn't allow me to enjoy horror, and I don't understand people who do. Is life not scary enough?Episode 1 (Thursday, March 26) – Is this a…

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Clue #235: Live from London, it’s Saturday night! But will SNL be translated across the Atlantic? | culture

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Saturday Night Live,TV comedy,Comedy,Television,Sky,Television & radio,Media,Television industry,Sky One 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TAt the weekend, after the longest period of hype for British comedy in ages, Saturday Night Live UK finally launched on Sky. It reaches a degree of division that most shows don't usually reach until after at least a few episodes, with some people wanting it, and others convinced it's going to fail. There has already been a note of protective schadenfreude online, with every last bit of promotional material – even a fairly innocuous…

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Review of The Rite of Spring / The Mirror – Stravinsky’s Vulgar and Digital-like by Alexander Whiteley | platform

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Dance,Theatre,Technology,Sadler's Wells,Culture,Igor Stravinsky,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TTechnology can sometimes seem to invade its own life and marginalize the people it nominally helps. This tension, even conflict, is the subject of Mirror, a new duet by Alexander Whiteley, which is in fine tune with the choreography's deployment of digital, generative technologies and virtual reality.In black and white leotards studded with motion capture markers, Gabriel Cioli and Daisy Dancer move themselves in spirals and symmetries that veer from close-up to counter-drag and back again. This unstable…

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Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat Review – Stomach-Stirring Sex Toy Episode | television

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,US television,TV comedy,Comedy,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 2023, Freevee (owned by Amazon) aired Jury Duty, a spoof reality show starring an unsuspecting member of the American public who was unaware that everyone else deciding the outcome of a trial in a Los Angeles court besides him was actually an actor. It was often ironic – not least when actor James Marsden was parachuted in as a member of the judging panel. However, it had a lot of heart, and a likable sign in the…

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TV Tonight: Hit or flop? The British version of SNL has finally arrived | TV and radio

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Saturday Night Live UK10pm, Sky OneThese are not easy times for TV satire. This is unfortunate because the world has rarely felt more in need of some brutal disdain. It remains to be seen whether this attempt to create a British version of an American comedy will succeed, but its line-up indicates an impressive commitment to new faces. Its regular cast includes Ayoade Bambooi, Larry Dean, Celeste Dring, and Annabelle Marlowe. There will be guest speakers each week and some…

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BTS releases new album Arirang ahead of their comeback concert | BTS

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: BTS,Music,K-pop,South Korea,Asia Pacific 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: K-pop stars BTS released a new album on Friday described as reflecting the mature boy band's Korean roots and identity, with buzz growing ahead of their outdoor comeback concert in the heart of Seoul.Saturday night's concert, which is expected to attract about 260,000 people, will be BTS's first after a nearly four-year hiatus while all seven members served their compulsory military service. It comes ahead of an 82-date world tour.“We have thought deeply about who we are — and how…

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