Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax to be awarded OBE for mental health work

Broadcaster and campaigner Ruby Wax will be awarded an OBE for her services to mental health.

Review - Ruby Wax: Sane New World

After suffering a major depressive episode that left her in hospital, Ruby Wax became a campaigner for mental health. Her last show detailed her breakdown; her latest asks how we deal with a disease reaching epidemic proportions.

Ruby Wax: A Sane New World - review

There's no doubt Ruby's aim is to help smash the taboo around mental illness with this show and, given the response of the crowd, I'm certain she managed to stimulate debate which will run beyond the theatre stalls.

Ruby Wax: Sane New World review

Is it a showbiz tale or a workshop for the audience? It's hard to tell, but the comic's interactive stage show does feel therapeutic.

Ruby Wax: Sane New World, review: 'fascinating'

Part comedy show, part science lecture, this is inspiring and intriguing. But there is a lack of new material, says Laura Barnett.

Ruby Wax, Sane New World, St James Theatre - review

Wax's new show is as much self-help lecture as it comedy, but her razor-sharp humour hasn't dulled.

Ruby Wax's Sane New World: the funny side of depression

Ruby Wax's new stage show is about anxiety, rehab and the finer points of neuroscience - but it'll still make you laugh.

Radio Times review

In a year when a celeb seemed to pop off every week, some losses were keener than others. Rik Mayall was 56 when he died suddenly in June: nowhere near retirement, as evidenced by his TV comeback last year in Man Down. That show's bereft creator, Greg Davies, contributes to this documentary, as do Michael Palin, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Tim McInnerny and Ruby Wax.

The rare footage here should illustrate how Mayall justified the over-used phrase "force of nature". He was like a child eternally refusing to grow up. That's why it was so shocking when he turned out not to be unstoppable after all.

The first UK Jewish comedy festival

Can Britain's Jewish standups become a cultural force to rival their US counterparts? Brian Logan finds out from Ruby Wax and other comics.

Ruby Wax: Sane New World - The Lowry, Salford

Sane New World is in many ways an interesting and enlightening experience, but it sits slightly awkwardly somewhere between entertainment, a lecture and a therapeutic workshop. Don't go expecting hilarity, you need to be prepared to roll with whatever emerges in the room, and every night must throw up a whole new set of thoughts to take away.