Articles

Read my latest articles for The Guardian and The Observer here.

Read my latest articles for The i Paper here.

 

Selected works

Gregg Wallace accused of inappropriate behaviour in letter sent to BBC in 2022 | The Observer

‘I will be hunted down for my Taylor Swift jokes!’ Rose Matafeo on her scary return to standup | The Guardian

Profile of Alice Lowe: ‘I’ve always gotten mouthy about sexism and it hasn’t really helped my career’ | The Guardian

‘We want to put audiences on edge’: the team bringing A24 horror film Saint Maud to the stage | The Guardian

‘They’re dumb – but I want to win’: comedians tell of the highs and lows of the Edinburgh fringe awards | The Observer

Exclusive: Fresh crisis at ‘toxic’ Strictly as ex-staff claim they faced sexualised comments and cruelty | The Observer

Dreams and jobs slowly fade away as Bristol bears brunt of arts cuts | The Observer

‘At the start you get molested and by 45 you’re too old to work’ – the secret misery of women working in TV | The Guardian

A new start after 60: I turned my homely lifestyle into a global phenomenon | The Guardian

Profile of Janine Harouni: ‘When you’re pregnant you’re massive. It felt powerful to be big on stage’ | The Guardian

Profile of Ania Magliano: ‘I have quite a lot of jokes about men being violent. There’s a dark undercurrent’ | The Guardian

Was it worth it? Edinburgh fringe acts give their verdict on the festival | The Guardian

‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences | The Guardian

Exclusive: David Walliams recorded making derogatory comments about BGT contestants | The Guardian

‘People might cry’: welcome to the hilariously creepy world of Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared | The Guardian

‘Someone’s making money but it’s not us’ – the comics spurning the Edinburgh fringe | The Guardian

How to say the unsayable: the artists tackling anti-‘woke’ trolling | The Guardian

‘Comedy is a powerful recruitment tool’: how the US rightwing use laughs for vast influence | The Guardian

Profile of Ambika Mod, star of This Is Going to Hurt | The Guardian

‘Everything ends up being about death and shagging’: Fern Brady on comedy and autism | The Guardian

New organisation launched to tackle sexual harassment in live comedy | The Guardian

Profile of Bridget Christie | The Guardian

PTSD, long Covid and a paltry pay offer: three nurses on how the pandemic changed them | The Guardian

All white on the night: the perennial problem with panel shows | The Guardian

‘It’s democratising’: Has lockdown changed comedy forever? | The Guardian

The comedians tackling sexual harassment on the live circuit | The Guardian

‘Women are tired of having to walk men through it’: men and #MeToo in comedy | The Guardian

‘I’ve had men rub their genitals against me’: extreme sexism in standup comedy | The Guardian

Coronavirus and comedy’s class divide | The Guardian

Taskmaster’s Alex Horne made me the ultimate lockdown quizmaster | The i newspaper

Seriously funny: political comedians on humour in horrific times | The Guardian

Joy of pecs: Jessica Fostekew, the weightlifting comic shredding body fascism | The Guardian

Congratulations, you played yourself: comedians who fictionalise their lives | The Guardian

When the Dream of Working in Indie Film Turns Into a Nightmare | VICE

Welcome to the underground world of Discount Greggs | VICE

Secrets behind the scenes of His Dark Materials | The i newspaper

When the Fringe is no joke: minding your mental health in Edinburgh | The Guardian

 

Reviews

Rob Copland: Gimme (One With Everything) review | The Guardian

Ugly Sisters review – deft duo riff on Germaine Greer’s encounter with a trans woman | The Guardian

Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show review – a total takedown of gendered expectations | The Guardian

Review: Jordan Gray, Is It A Bird? at Edinburgh Festival | The Guardian

 

The Guardian: comedy series

Joking Around

Rachael Healy tours the UK to discover more about regional comedy scenes and senses of humour from local standups | The Guardian

It Started on Stage

Rachael Healy revisits the origins of hit TV shows in the UK’s comedy clubs and fringe theatres | The Guardian