Kate Copstick
- Scottish
- Actor, writer and journalist
Press clippings Page 5
Funny Women judges announced
Judges from prestigious areas of the media for the awards include Stephen Armstrong, Dominic Maxwell, Bruce Dessau, Sukey Firth, Nosheen Iqbal, Sharon Lougher & Kate Copstick.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 19th July 2021Several comics and journalists all struck with illness
Mark Dean Quinn has been hospitalised by a stroke and was paralysed down one side; London-based Italian performer Joe Palermo has had a heart attack; Lynn Ruth Miller had what she calls a "mild" heart attack last week, and was later told she had inoperable oesophageal cancer; and John Fleming has been struck with vertigo.
John Flemning, John Fleming's Blog, 19th July 2021Soho Theatre cancels Chris McGlade's Forgiveness show
Chris McGlade has complained that he has been cancelled after his show was 'banned' from the Soho Theatre. The Teeside stand-up - who describes himself as an 'anti-PC, pro-free speech, working-class comedian' - had successfully performed Forgiveness at the prestigious London venue last year. But although it won plaudits both there and at the Edinburgh Fringe, plans for a return run have been cancelled over fears about the language used.
Chortle, 18th July 2021Have claims of the death of comedy been exaggerated?
On Radio 4's Taboo, Kate Copstick invited comedians to debate the impact of cancel culture - and even considered changing her mind.
Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 14th July 2021Copstick: Comedy's doomed because we have to be woke
"I fear a deepening quicksand of prescription in which the art and craft of comedy is arguably sinking."
Chortle, 11th July 2021Taboo review
The critic may have a horse in this race. Not only to protect the transgressive force of comedy which she holds so dear, but she, too, has been threatened with 'cancellation' after she was accused of being a 'rape apologist' a few years ago for unsympathetic comments about date-rape of an apocryphal teenager who 'dolls herself up, covers herself in make-up, goes out [and] gets shit-faced'. But she and her contributors throw up many interesting questions about the nature of comedy, the flirtations with offence that can give comedy its bite, the need for taboos for that line to exist, the unfair burden of representation on the shoulders of some comedians, and so much more,.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th July 2021Howerd's End review
A lot of love has gone into this imagined duet between Frankie Howerd and his lover Dennis Heymer.
Kate Copstick, Broadway Baby, 1st November 2020Live comedy return reminds that online's no substitute
Local performers have struggled to fill the gap even though the field is wide open this month, writes Kate Copstick.
Kate Copstick, The Scotsman, 31st August 2020Kate Copstick on taking Funny Women's comedy course
It is not for the faint of heart, the Funny Women Crash Comedy Course.
Kate Copstick, Edinburgh Evening News, 21st August 2020Fringe: is stand-up comedy doomed to fail online?
Can stand-up ever work as well on a laptop screen as it does in front of a live audience in a hot, sweaty Edinburgh basement? Kate Copstick asks some Fringe veterans.
Kate Copstick, The Scotsman, 29th July 2020