May 2014
I thought I was going to be at Kilkenny’s Sky Cat Laughs Festival this weekend, but some of the more boring bits of real life got in the way. I thought I wouldn’t be too bothered. But then I started reading Secret Kilkenny and began to grind my teeth at the thought of missing Cat Laughs 2014.
Hold on to your takeaway pizzas, Matthew Crosby, Ben Clark and Tom Parry return to BBC3 on June 2 for the second series of Badults, in which they play three flat-sharing, prank-playing, fun-loving mates Matthew, Ben and Tom. Live comedy fans will know the trio as Pappy's – last year they picked up a Foster's Comedy Award nomination at the Edinburgh Festival, where they have a following bordering on the fanatical. Beyond The Joke asked the trio ten questions to find out more about the new series and their future plans.
I’m slightly ashamed to say this. It feels utterly politically incorrect. But the only comedian I can compare Michael Che to is Hannibal Buress. Like Buress, Che is a young, black American rising star who writes for TV and made a bit of a splash at the Edinburgh Fringe on their first UK visit. Both talk about rap and sex among other things in a laid-back, relaxed, intelligent style.
Sara Pascoe has announced her first UK tour. Taking in an initial 27 dates, the Sara Pascoe Vs History tour will begin in Brighton on October 24, 2014 and conclude in Tunbridge Wells on January 30, 2015, with tickets on sale now.
BBC Radio 2 has announced that it will be broadcasting a week of late night comedy showcases between June 9-13. The network, which now reaches a record audience of 15.6 million listeners a week, will feature a number of one-off comedy commissions from established artists, as well as up-coming and emerging new talent.
It’s a good week for thinking persons’ comedy at the Soho Theatre. From Tuesday to Sunday there is an opportunity to see the hotly-tipped Michael Che. The laid back New Yorker comes trailing a string of recommendations and positive write-ups. He has recently been named as one of Rolling Stone’s ’50 Funniest People’, Buzzfeed’s ’50 Hottest Men in Comedy’, and Variety’s ‘Top 10 Comics To Watch’.
Comedian Daniel Sloss has signed a talent deal to create an untitled television pilot with chat show host Conan O’Brien’s Conaco production company for a major USA studio.
The 2014 Balham Comedy Festival, running from July 11 - 19, has announced its line-up. Among the names confirmed are Susan Calman, Paul Daniels, Robert Newman, Phill Jupitus, Reginald D Hunter, Tim Vine, Stephen K Amos, Marcus Brigstocke, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi, Mark Steel, Richard Herring, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Kevin Day, Gary Delaney, Kerry Godliman, Tony Law, and Fred MacAulay with more performers to be announced.
I was amused to hear Alison Moyet on Desert Island Discs this week saying that she put her foot in it when she met her hero Elvis Costello after one of his storming gigs. She meant to say how brilliant his epic set had been, but instead, for some reason, she engaged a different part of her brain and said “you dragged that out a bit”. According to newspaper reports, this was such a traumatic faux pas it almost made her an agoraphobic for a few years.
Tickets are now available for the studio filming of the new BBC3 TV show, Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment. The pilot of the variety-based series, in which the star of the hit sitcom Uncle opened the show by emerging from the boot of a car, was shown last year as part of the BBC's Comedy Feeds series. Helm has also been commissioned to write his own sitcom and is making a second series of Uncle.
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