SIX ACCIDENTAL MOMENTS ON GREAT RECORDS / OH COMELY 10/08/201723/06/2020Jason Ward The crucial difference between songs and records is that a song is an idea and a record is a thing. The clue’s in
ALISON BRIE / OH COMELY 10/08/201725/09/2017Jason Ward The essential contradiction of professional wrestling is that it is both fake and real at the same time. While its outcomes are predetermined,
AN ORDINARY LIFE / OH COMELY 10/08/201725/09/2017Jason Ward The average human laughs a couple of dozen times each day but very few of them stick. I can remember all of the
MAE MARTIN / OH COMELY 10/08/201723/07/2020Jason Ward It’s a compelling proposition: in her latest stand-up show Dope, Mae Martin details the significant addictions of her life, one by one. First,
ASSASSINATION VACATION / OH COMELY 10/08/201725/09/2017Jason Ward Knowledge in everyday life so often arrives wearing the garments of the pub bore, the explainer who behaves as if they somehow own
THE ODYSSEY / CURZON 01/07/201716/09/2019Jason Ward Any film that covers thirty years in the life of its subject will inevitably contain an generous amount of incident, especially if that
SIX PETS WITH CONSTITUTIONAL POWER / OH COMELY 21/06/201725/09/2017Jason Ward The relentless electioneering of recent years has been exhausting and demoralising, but politics isn’t wholly bleak: it will always be funny, at least,
THE END OF ENDINGS / OH COMELY 21/06/201722/09/2017Jason Ward I was 27 when I first learned that The Beatles is a pun. Even though I’ve known how to spell “beetle” for some
HOW TO GET KICKED OUT OF A MUSEUM / OH COMELY 21/06/201722/09/2017Jason Ward My lack of a criminal past owes more to cowardice than an abundance of virtue. I’ve always been uncomfortable with the prospect of
JOSIE LONG / OH COMELY 21/06/201725/09/2017Jason Ward On certain days it’s possible to wake up in a country you don’t quite recognise. From bruising austerity cuts to the spread of
