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  TV tonight: Greg Davies and Alex Horne continue the Taskmaster fun

  Taskmaster returns with a new cohort of celebrities. Plus: Gordon Ramsay tests his cooks’ mettle up a mountain. Here’s what to watch this evening

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  Bridget Christie: Who Am I?, review: a sly, sparkling celebration of the menopause

  While a half century is a cause for celebration in cricket, it can prove rather less so in life. Just ask Bridget Christie, the 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner, Radio 4 regular and occasional TV-show panellist whose notching up of five decades on Earth is the chief fuel for her new show, Who Am I?

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  Bridget Christie at Leicester Square Theatre review: Her comic potency remains undiminished

  4/5 The highly accomplished stand-up’s new show deserves to be seen by as many people as possible

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  On my radar: Bridget Christie’s cultural highlights

  On my radar: Bridget Christie’s cultural highlights. The comedian on Jon Ronson’s take on the culture wars, an app for menopausal women, and a life-affirming book about death

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  Bridget Christie: Who Am I? review – a comic ahead of the crowd

  Bridget Christie: Who Am I? review – a comic ahead of the crowd. Soho theatre, LondonThe standup’s rich and playful show about the menopause combines ingenious silliness with campaigning ferocity

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  Bridget Christie: Ritual Britain made me proud to be British

  Bridget Christie: Ritual Britain made me proud to be British. Morris dancers, druids, the Burryman – they’re all in Ben Edge’s spellbinding collaboration with the Museum of British Folklore, showcasing customs that stretch back into the mists of time

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  The 25 best stand-up comedy specials on Netflix UK to cheer you up in lockdown

  Lockdown, especially if you're self-isolating, can be worrying, lonely and dull. Which is why it’s probably a good idea, if you’re trapped in the house, to open up Netflix and enjoy the best stand-up specials it has to offer. From young Aziz Ansari to Amy Schumer’s latest, here are 25 shows to turn that dry cough into a chuckle. 1. Lynne Koplitz: Hormonal Beast (2017)

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  Alex Edelman review: Goofy people-pleaser sharpens up his act

  The seed for Alex Edelman’s Just For Us was planted when fellow stand-up Bridget Christie suggested that he did fewer what he calls “dumb bulls***” jokes and more material about the real world. Out of that remark grew this thought-provoking political piece, nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2018 and now returning for a London outing.At the heart of the narrative is a riveting account of the young Bostonian “like an ugly Louis Theroux” attending a white nationalist meeting in a Manhattan

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  ‘The Daily Mail mistook me for Charles II': five celebrities on their famous lookalikes

  ‘The Daily Mail mistook me for Charles II': five celebrities on their famous lookalikesBridget Christie, Frank Skinner, Ben Miller, Rylan Clark-Neal and Jade Thirlwall channel the famous people they get mistaken for

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  Wanda Sykes review – tough anti-Trump tirade is a potent tonic

  The first half hour of Wanda Sykes’ maiden London gig is the biggest-hitting anti-Trump tirade I’ve heard yet on a comedy stage. It’s not telling us anything we don’t know, it may not change a single mind, but boy, is it funny, as Sykes ratchets up her dismay at, and disdain for, everything the president says, does and is. Because Sykes plays these routines – after the Bridget Christie fashion – as if she just can’t believe what she’s waking up to every morning.

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