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Aziz Ansari

October 2025

  • Dave Chappelle on stage in Sydney.

    ‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

    Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Carr. How have they responded?

September 2025

  • Aziz Ansari and Keanu Reeves in Good Fortune

    Good Fortune review – Aziz Ansari’s big comeback comedy struggles to find big laughs

  • two people in a car

    From Knives Out 3 to Soderbergh: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival 2025

July 2025

  • TOPSHOT-FRANCE-FILM-FESTIVAL-CANNES<br>TOPSHOT - US actress, director Angelina Jolie arrives for the screening of the film "Eddington" at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 16, 2025. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP) (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Toronto film festival: Angelina Jolie, Saoirse Ronan and Keanu Reeves lead lineup

    The 50th edition of the Canadian film festival will also feature world premieres starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Sydney Sweeney and Matthew McConaughey

April 2022

  • Bill Murray at the Oscars in March 2022.

    Bill Murray reportedly accused of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ on film set

    Production of Being Mortal suspended by studio Searchlight while an investigation is being conducted

January 2022

  • 1<br>AZIZ ANSARI: NIGHTCLUB COMEDIAN. Aziz Ansari in AZIZ ANSARI: NIGHTCLUB COMEDIAN. Cr. Marcus Russell Price/ Netflix

    Aziz Ansari: Nightclub Comedian review – standup looks back in cynical Netflix special

    Intercut with footage from 20 years ago, the US comic’s new show considers the pandemic, politics and allegations made against him

December 2021

  • Top TV shows of 2021, 1: It's a Sin, Channel 4. Composite

    2021 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2021

    The great telly countdown hits the top spot with a furiously joyful, gut-wrenching five-part drama that was funny and full of life

May 2021

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Kevin Spacey and the rise of uncancel culture

    Peter Bradshaw
    Does the announcement that Spacey is returning to acting suggest a way back for other Hollywood men who were accused but not convicted of misconduct?

September 2019

  • From left, Sarah Silverman, Romesh Ranganathan, Julia Davis, Steve Coogan, Tiffany Haddish

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 50 best comedians of the 21st century

    From apocalyptic standup Frankie Boyle to the many hilarious faces of Tina Fey, Steve Coogan, Sharon Horgan and Kristen Wiig, we present the funniest people of the era

July 2019

  • Aziz Ansari and Spike Jonze

    The watcher
    'He’s dead': can Aziz Ansari stage a comeback with his Netflix special?

    Directed by Spike Jonze, the comic leads with the accusations made against him last year, introducing a more contrite Ansari 2.0

June 2019

  • Aziz Ansari

    Aziz Ansari's show addresses #MeToo – and reveals his flawed humanity

    Greta Parry
    On the Australian leg of his tour, Ansari shows vulnerability in addressing allegations made against him. But there is unease and defensiveness too

April 2019

  • Aziz Ansari

    Aziz Ansari: Road to Nowhere review – combative set hits raw nerves

    The US standup tackles morality, racism, R Kelly and Michael Jackson in a barbed satirical show

February 2019

  • (FILES) In this photo taken on January 7, 2018, Actor Aziz Ansari poses with the trophy for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy during the 75th Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Actor and comedian Aziz Ansari has acknowledged a sexual encounter with an anonymous accuser but insisted it was “completely consensual.” The accusations, published January 14, 2018 in online magazine Babe, were made by a 23-year-old photographer from Brooklyn, New York, named only as “Grace.” / AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWNFREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

    'I felt terrible': Aziz Ansari addresses misconduct claims during comedy set

    The Master of None creator speaks extensively about allegations made against him for the first time during sold-out show in New York

January 2019

  • Aziz Ansari

    Ask Hadley
    Post-#MeToo have the likes of Kevin Hart and Aziz Ansari learned from their mistakes?

    Can we expect a new era of equality? Not if the first public utterances by some of the early offenders are anything to go by

November 2018

  • Hari Kondabolu.

    Hari Kondabolu: ‘I’ve had death threats. I’ve unified a continent in hatred of me’

    The comedian on his controversial documentary, giving white people the shivers on race, and why he’s bringing American-style standup to the UK

October 2018

  • Aziz Ansari on stage in 2014

    Aziz Ansari suggests 'wokeness' can go too far at surprise gig

    The US comic is cynical about competitive virtue-signalling in a show that doesn’t directly respond to allegations against him but is full of friction

September 2018

  • Blue; Sisqo; and Mariah and her ex

    What went thong? How Sisqo said ‘I do’ to pop narcissism

  • Nosheen Iqbal

    A mockery of #MeToo: the rush to rehabilitate Louis CK is indecent

    Nosheen Iqbal

May 2018

  • Aziz Ansari arrives at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice Awards at the Barker Hangar on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

    Aziz Ansari returns to standup in New York: 'He talked about his outrage fatigue'

    The comedian played five surprise shows but audiences say he avoided discussing recent sexual misconduct allegations against him

February 2018

  • Dating and consent illustration

    Carnality and consent: how to navigate sex in the modern world

    The past four months has seen a reckoning. After frank discussion about casual hook-ups and uncomfortable encounters, a new understanding of dating is emerging
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