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Scottish stand-up Darren Connell has created a comedy short for Channel 4. The comic – best known as Bobby Muir in Scot Squad – stars in Rest Easy Gerry Boy as a character called Darren, as well as ...
Ministers ‘will do everything to support’ the British comedy industry, the Leader of House Of Commons has pledged. Speaking at the Despatch Box yesterday, Lucy Powell agreed that ‘the comedy sector is ...
The Greenwich Comedy Festival has announced the line-up for this year’s event, being held in a marquee in the Old Royal Naval College. Acts appearing from September 17 to 21 include Ed Gamble, Frankie ...
The first series of Glenn Moore ’s Almanac ran in 2023, with four episodes liking major world events with his own life. Now a new run is to be recorded at Hoxton Hall in East London on July 15 and 21.
Comedians Vs. Homelessness will take place on October 8, and is being driven by Comedy Army—a collective that includes those who have experienced homelessness alongside comedy, healthcare, production ...
Sam Campbell stars as Long Head in a series of off-the-wall animated shorts from Australia. The sketches were first released on TikTok last year, but now they are finding a less transient home on ...
Adam and Joe will be on Virgin Radio from 10am to 1pm on Sunday. Love You, Byeee, a follow-up to Buxton’s Ramble Book, is published by Mudlark, priced £22. It is available from Amazon at £18.73 – or ...
Previously unknown material that legendary comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created for The Goon Show has been unearthed in their archive. The material - short, tightly written scripts ...
Writers are invited to submit their comedy scripts to a Fringe show that will stage their work with a cast of top comedians. The shows, to be performed at Monkey Barrel Comedy, will be directed Ed Bye ...
The BBC has ordered a ‘darkly comedic’ crime drama based on the novels of former comic Caimh McDonnell and co-created by ex stand-up Chris Addison. Addison, now a director and writer whose credits ...
A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special. A federal court in São Paulo said Leo Lins’s work contributed to ‘the spread of ...
Welsh comedy actors Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are spending a nostalgic weekend in Merthyr Tydfil for a new BBC One programme airing next week. Once the ‘iron capital of the world’, Speirs’s hometown ...