Maybe Erling Haaland can’t stop himself raw dogging. But if you need a wee, go for a wee
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The star of Thelma, about a scammed woman who embarks on a revenge mission, on an ageing world, landing her first lead role and working with Shaft
Jerry Seinfeld is right that TV comedy isn’t funny any more - just not about why
The comedian blames “PC crap” and the “extreme left” but spineless sitcom isn’t solely product of the so-called Great Awokening of the 2010s
Jerry Seinfeld is this week’s guest star of It Was Better in the Old Days
Donald Clarke: Humans over a certain age have been whinging about the imagined collapse of society since we were worshipping turnips
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Donald Clarke: What Larry David did with the ending of his comedy feels unique in the troubled history of televisual valedictions
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Larry David comedy to end after almost 25 years
HBO’s longest-running comedy draws on humour in everyday life but dialogue is mostly improvised
Estelle Harris, George’s mother on Seinfeld, dies at 93
Employing a high-powered screech, she took maternal exasperation to comedic heights
Metamates, the Crypto Bowl and further blockade tensions in Ottawa
Planet Business: Boldly going deeper into space than anyone has gone in 50 years
Irish man’s new Santa Monica Airport restaurant takes off
Wild Geese: Restauranteur on life in LA and how his business thrived during pandemic
Maureen Dowd: Barack Obama’s birthday party signals the end of cool
Former president’s tone-deaf bash at Martha’s Vineyard was a tale of the disinvited
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Filming a live play during Covid: ‘We were playing Russian roulette’
Producing David Ireland’s Sadie at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for TV was nerve-wracking
Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘I had to ring the alarm bell and say democracy is in peril’
The Borat actor on his new film and why he is reluctant to be a celebrity
‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting
The film-maker, accused of sexually assaulting his child in 1992, is done treading carefully
Larry David’s quarantine: ‘I’m reading Woody Allen’s memoir. It’s fantastic’
US TV’s great misanthrope is relieved that social life and handshaking are out of fashion
The Righteous Gemstones: Pitch-black humour on Sky Comedy
Sky’s new comedy channel includes #MeToo-themed series of Curb Your Enthusiasm
JoJo Rabbit: Hitler, the Jews and the boundaries of comedy
Sophisticated film set in Germany during the second World War deploys its laughter expertly and contains a message for our time
Five sports documentaries to watch on Netflix
Story of Russia’s Olympic doping program plays like a legal thriller
Curb Your Enthusiasm star Bob Einstein dies aged 76
Actor also appeared in Arrested Development, Super Dave, and Ocean’s Thirteen
Trump’s golf habit the most presidential thing about him
US president visited Turnberry earlier this week and is latest in long line of enthusiasts
Can’t find anything good on Netflix? Here are the best new shows on the web
From Eighty Sixed to Corpus TV, the web is still the place to find unorthodox new talent
Ludovico Einaudi: The man behind the most popular classical works in a generation
Recent years have seen him cross over to mainstream success with greater effect than any similar artist in decades
Ricky Gervais: My offensive jokes are misunderstood
Caitlyn Jenner, David Brent and why life is only getting worse
Republicans blitz New Hampshire before key ballot
Establishment contenders seek to halt Marco Rubio surge after poor debate display
Maureen Dowd: Hillary Clinton’s messages failing to connect
Hillary’s campaign cries sexism too often and pales when compared to Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton hits back over Wall Street donation claims
Rivals lock horns in final debate as race heats up ahead of New Hampshire primary
Culture Shock: Heard the one about the Catholic, the Protestant and the sitcom?
What’s the difference between ‘Fawlty Towers’, ‘The Office’, ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’? From the way they’re made to the way their audiences respond, each has its own, almost religious approach
Doll and Em: you’ll laugh, you’ll projectile cry
Lifelong friends Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer make their relationship awkward in a new sitcom, the latest comedy to feature people portraying distorted versions of themselves
Titter ye not: thank Graham Linehan for Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown’s Boys
The traditional British sitcom wasn’t dead: it just needed the kiss of life from an Irishman
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