Laugh your way through Blue Monday with our cultural survival guide
Soul-stirring musicals, bawdy books, comedy old and new… Our writers pick the culture guaranteed to cheer you up - even on Blue Monday
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The 2021 hot 100: the year’s best entertainment, from Bond and Cinderella to Hockney and Line of Duty
Our critics share their top picks for this coming year, including films, TV, art, books, theatre dance and music
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‘I don’t think JK Rowling is transphobic,’ says gender-fluid comedian Eddie Izzard
Speaking to The Telegraph, the stand-up veteran shared his views on the Harry Potter author and previewed his upcoming streamed show
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Eddie Izzard: ‘Call me she or he – my brain is coded both ways’
Every day this month, the unstoppable comedian is running a marathon – then doing stand-up. His goal? To 'make humanity great again'
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How Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam found the funny side of Covid
Jan Etherington on how her ‘dream team’ helped her adapt her latest radio series to the pandemic
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Edinburgh Fringe faces the future: why a 2021 cancellation would be a ‘national tragedy’
Many of Britain's biggest talents got their break at the Fringe – and if it skips another year our culture will take 'decades' to recover
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From Sophie Ellis Bextor to the National Gallery – who were the cultural heroes of 2020?
Our arts critics look back those who made our lives just a little bit brighter, from a lockdown disco DJ to a virtual pub gig landlady
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BBC accused of comedy bias as research shows 75pc of slots are taken up by anti-Brexit, left-leaning comedians
Tim Davie, the BBC director-general, has acknowledged that the BBC’s comedy output is seen as too one-sided
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'Could you marry me?': how Kenneth Williams fell for Barbara Windsor
The actress shared such a close bond with her Carry On co-star that she even invited him along as a third-wheel on her honeymoon
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The Comeback, Noël Coward Theatre review: the funniest West End double-act in years
Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen – better known as 'The Pin' – are joined by a different celebrity guest each night for this uproarious comedy
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‘A barrage of inferred insults’: what really happened when the Bee Gees met Clive Anderson
Were the band humourless or the host rude? Neither, reveals the man behind the Nineties' most awkward TV interview
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2020 in comedy: where will the stars of the future come from?
As established names go global online, the next generation of stand-ups face losing their launchpad
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BBC garners 100 complaints for Vicar of Dibley Black Lives Matter episode before it even airs
A new series of 10-minute 'The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown' films addresses events from the past year, including the death of George Floyd
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Bill Bailey's Strictly Diary: ‘I’ll air-guitar like a loon to Metallica on the dancefloor’
In his weekly report, the comedian talks about rocking out to his dream song and the story behind his stage name
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Meet the Richardsons at Christmas, review: this curmudgeonly festive comedy was a downbeat delight
Married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont merrily send themselves up in this mockumentary that saw Johnny Vegas crash Christmas
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Queens of the Street, review: Corrie's women are survivors and matchless in their humour
Not enough time here to celebrate the glorious female characters who have graced Coronation Street over the past 60 years
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Coronation Street anniversary episode, review: sixty years on and still the best soap around
There was high drama on the cobbles, but it's the veteran cast - including Ken Barlow - who triumphed in the 60th anniversary episode
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'Tim Brooke-Taylor hated his character in The Goodies'
As the late comedian's final episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is aired, his former co-star looks back fondly on their early 'disasters'
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Bill Bailey's Strictly Diary: 'One wrong step and I could lose a kneecap'
In his exclusive report, the comedian talks about the tricky Argentine Tango and getting into a Phantom frame of mind
