May 2014
Applications have opened to be a Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award public panellist. Anyone interested will need to be in Edinburgh from August 10 to August 24 and will see around six shows a day in that time. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered and, of course, tickets will all be free. More details here.
American TV superstar talk show host Chelsea Handler is to play her first-ever live show in the UK at The London Palladium on July 12. Handler is best known for her late-night show Chelsea Lately, which broadcasts on the E! channel.
Children’s writers beware. It seems as if comedians are coming over here taking your bloody jobs. Yesterday it was announced that David Baddiel’s first novel for children, The Parent Agency, is to be published this autumn by Harper Collins. Baddiel got the idea for the fantasy about a boy whose dreams come true after inventing stories for his kids: “The Parent Agency came about after a chat with my nine-year-old son Ezra.” Maybe his son should be on a royalty.
A funny thing happened to me when I was watching the penultimate episode of Rev the other week. When Liam Neeson appeared in a shell suit as God and reassured Adam Smallbone that he would always be there for him I started to well up. I wouldn't go as far as to say a tear ran down my cheek, but I was definitely moved. And no, I'm not a Christian and have no plans to become one.
I feel like I’m being stalked by Tim Key. In the last couple of months he has popped into my life as the creepy murderer in Inside No 9, then onstage in Single White Slut the day after I’d spotted him on TV in an airing of soppy romcom One Day. Then last week I saw him play a nerdy Kafkaesque office drone in The Double.
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