Rachel Aroesti
- Journalist
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How People Just Do Nothing made sitcoms funny again
In an age of bleak comedy that barely makes you snigger, one show has been keeping up the lost art of making people laugh - the hilarious, half-witted pirate radio mockumentary. Now, finally, the BBC are throwing their weight behind it.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 22nd September 2016Can satire show Unspun humanise our MPs?
Trust in our leaders has never been lower. But now, Matt Forde's comic current affairs show is here to humanise the people behind the politics.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 12th September 2016Al Murray: interview
From Michael Palin to Father Ted, the comedian reveals the things that make him chuckle the most.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 9th September 2016The podcast that gets inside comedians' heads
Part podcast, part therapy session, The Comedian's Comedian offers a peek into the inner life of stand-ups. Meet its creator, Stuart Goldsmith.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 6th September 2016Daniel Simonsen interview
From Da Ali G Show to German sausages, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the most.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 26th August 2016Chris Ramsey interview
From Billy Connolly to Shaun Of The Dead, the comedian reveals the things that make him laugh the most.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 19th August 2016Isy Suttie interview
From Adrian Mole to The Inbetweeners, the comedian reveals the things that make her laugh the most.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 12th August 2016James Acaster: the Leonardo DiCaprio of standup
He has found comedy in everything from knitwear to ready-to-eat apricots. But this son of Kettering's apparently whimsical humour comes with hidden depths.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 6th August 2016Bridget Christie interview
From Amy Schumer to Best In Show, the comedian reveals the things that make her laugh the most.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 29th July 2016Robert Popper's superlatively silly comedy is peerless in the way it captures the everyday eccentricity of family life. In this fourth series opener, Goodman family patriarch Martin invites a friend over for dinner, to the rest of the family's dismay. What inevitably follows is a sequence of misunderstandings and backfiring schemes, punctuated - as ever - by umpteen infuriating visits from neighbour Jim.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 22nd July 2016