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I love French Bulldogs doing anything, sleeping, eating, wrapped in blankets, dressed as carrots, wearing sunglasses, failing to catch things in slow motion. They’re always good value. My parents never ...

I have been acting for thirteen years. I love my job. It’s my passion. But it’s also so frustrating that so often I can’t do it. Not enough work. Too ...

I guess I’ve never really stopped to think about what things specifically make me laugh… well I have now. Here are some of the things in life which make me ...

You may think this is base - but penises are proof that god exists. and that they are a woman. Because THEY ARE SO FUNNY. They keep me entertained all ...

In life, and in comedy, I think the most important thing is to laugh at yourself.  A classic thing I do is that I will run for the bus, barely ...

I was waiting in a reception of a fancy office building. There was a fully grown, sensible-looking adult man waiting very casually, sitting next to a suitcase. The receptionist turned ...

My name is Rob Auton, I am a writer and performer of what I write. Sometimes I stand up on stage at comedy nights and it makes people laugh and ...

If you are a comedian then the hardest thing in the world is to try and be as funny as something utterly stupid and irrelevant that you and your friends ...

As a young female actor, I have seen play after play dominated by male characters and in particular those with a classical text. Beautifully constructed plays and novels written by ...

This clip of the boy falling off his chair in pursuit of an ice-cream truck. There really is nothing better than his face, so full of hope, smack-landing on the ...

I was given a free life coaching session. The coach’s life had been a catalogue of disasters from failed relationships to businesses. I’m a twenty stone man and she told ...

As an improviser I find moments of genuine spontaneity the most comedic. We are never more hilariously human than when we react on the spot, instantly and without filter. Here ...

For someone who tells jokes for a living, not much makes me laugh out loud. I do find things funny. But I don’t laugh out loud often. I used to ...

They say everyone has a book in them. The ability to produce at least one tome accounting for some of their time on earth; words they have to speak; a ...

I love being inside, laughing at people who have got caught in the rain. I know that sounds mean, but there is no joy quite like it. It’s funnier the ...

Olga Koch shares with us the top 10 things that make her laugh ahead of her new show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Skateboards Skateboards are funny because you can ...

The internet can be a right kick in the humps sometimes, what was once a sanctuary of cat memes and videos of children falling is now a temple of doom ...

We're not allowed to love Friends as much as we used to because of problems due to it being made in the past, but I learned to speak English watching ...

Written by Zach Zucker, Viggo Venn and Jonny Woolley of Zach & Viggo. Most people think jokes are funny, and that can be true if you’re going for ‘head laughs’ ...

The TV Series ‘Camping’. I watched the entire series on the train back from the Fringe, the day after a break-up. As you can imagine, I was not in ...

My friend Emma and I like to send each other these banal voicemails over Whatsapp. They often start with something like “it’s Jonathan from KwikFit” or “this is Stephanie from ...

I was in a bookshop recently and an old man ripped a huge fart and looked over to a bemused teenager and laughed. Not a single F given. Marvelous. Kitchen ...

When it comes to creating work, I am particularly interested in looking for ways of speaking out, of telling the world things that bug me, that affect me personally or ...

I spent a decade of my adult life telling people that I didn’t like plays. I like theater, I would say, but I just don’t like plays.  In hindsight, my ...