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Tuesday, 20th April 2021 at 1:54 pm Comedy fans, rejoice! Steve Coogan is back in his iconic role of hapless broadcaster Alan Partridge as he presents another series of fluffy magazine show This Time. Advertisement The first series aired back in 2019 and blended Alan’s delightfully awkward hosting of The One Show parody with shorter segments which gave us a peek at what goes on when the cameras aren’t rolling. It particularly focused on the tension between Alan and his co-presenter Jennie ...

Why Tim Key’s poems are the only thing getting me through lockdown Matt Boytwitch, Rishi Perfect, Bohnson on a swing in the Downing Street rose garden – the comedian has produced some of the greatest political cartoons of the pandemic. The poet and comedian Tim Key is not a political man. He can express opinions on the government one-on-one, “when I’m on safe ground”, he tells me, but not, say, at a dinner party. Yet Keys poems are some of the greatest political cartoons of the p...

Last modified on Mon 1 Feb 2021 15.03 EST Take a supercilious comedian, let him deliver live comedy without leaving the house and what do you get? Something like this live-stream from Tim Key, in which our host reads a handful of poems from his new book, but spends more time cooking his dinner, bathing and chewing the fat with his pal. “Did I pay £8,” asks one viewer-from-home in the live-chat, “to see a 44-year-old fart in a bath?” At points, I too bridled at the self-in...