Rachael Healy
- Journalist
Press clippings Page 8
'We need an intervention': five ways to fix the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Too pricy, too elitist, just too big? After the criticisms of this year's event, a panel of festival regulars consider the way forward for Edinburgh's summer spectacular.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 22nd September 2022Welcome to the hilariously creepy world of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
With its felt urinals, lashings of raw meat and coffins coming to life, this nightmarish puppet show has made the move from YouTube sensation to brilliant Channel 4 comedy. We meets its makers.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 12th September 2022Rachel Parris: 'It's naive to think abortion rights are safe in Britain. I'm very scared'
As she takes over as the presenter of Late Night Mash, the comedian talks about the need for more television satire, how going viral led to a breakdown and how to joke about the cost of the living crisis.
Rachael Healy, i Newspaper, 1st September 2022Comedians rejoice at the return of crowds
After lockdowns kept them out of touch with audiences, stand-ups explain their exhilaration at coming together to raise laughs at Edinburgh Fringe.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 19th August 2022Comedians call for safer working conditions
With research showing sexual harassment is a routine occurrence, there is growing demand for arts venues to commit to protecting entertainers.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 18th August 2022The pitfalls and pleasures of taking comedy across borders
Just because a joke works in one country or language doesn't mean it will in another. Globetrotting stand-ups talk about routines that have bombed - and the changes that saved them.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 15th August 2022The comics spurning the Edinburgh Fringe
Stand-ups used to think they'd never make it if they didn't play the festival. But it's leaving many saddled with debt, stuck in squalid flats and even suicidal. Refuseniks tell us why they're bowing out.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 11th July 2022What does 'alternative comedy' mean in 2022?
A scene that started as a counter to straight stand-up at the end of the 1970s is still hard to peg - but it's much more than just weird stuff that doesn't work on telly.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 29th June 2022Sophie Duker interview
Having defeated impostor syndrome, the stand-up is taking on Taskmaster and returning to the Edinburgh Fringe with 'sexy and chaotic' new show Hag.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 13th April 2022The Guilty Feminist Live review
Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown discusses her experiences on male-dominated sets, alongside hosts Susan Wokoma and Deborah Frances-White's stand-up comedy.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 22nd March 2022