March 2016
One thing in particular intrigues me about Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. It felt as if he was doing warm-ups and works-in-progress for this series for at least a year in advance around the UK. I assumed that this was to get every phrase, every comma, every pause in the right place. And then along comes episode 5 and, unless he is pulling the wool over the liberal intelligentsia’s eyes and engages plants and stooges like a hack magician, he frequently seems to be winging it here.
The Gold Channel has hastily rearranged its TV schedules this weekend to pay tribute to Ronnie Corbett, who died today.
It has just been reported by the BBC that Ronnie Corbett has died. He was 85.
The full cast has been announced for the remake of Porridge as part of the BBC's forthcoming landmark sitcom season.
Jack Whitehall has become embroiled in a dispute with Sylvester Stallone over an alleged encounter after the Oscars in Los Angeles earlier this year.
My partner couldn’t join me for Francis Veber’s The Painkiller last night as she was at the theatre elsewhere. She had gone to see a play by another French writer, Jean Genet’s The Maids, at Trafalgar Studios. In an ideal world The Painkiller should have been at the Trafalgar – it used to be the Whitehall Theatre, London’s home of farce. And there isn't a more farcical – in a Good Way – play in the West End at the moment than this romp starring Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon.
Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, is one of the artists who has donated work to a forthcoming fundraising charity campaign.
Lottery Ticket Buyers will also have the unique chance to own one of 20 original artworks from the likes of Gavin Turk, Schoony, Dougie Wallace, Ceal Warnants and Ben Eine. Each £10 ticket will raise money for The Hepatitis C Trust.
Sharon Horgan, Car Share and Romesh Ranganathan's Asian Provocateur are among the nominees for Bafta TV Awards announced today.
The star of Catastrophe is nominated for Female Performance in a Comedy Programme alongside Miranda Hart, Sian Gibson and Michaela Coel. Peter Kay is nominated for Male Performance alongside Hugh Bonneville, Javone Prince and Toby Jones.
Daniel Kitson will be performing in Edinburgh this summer. He will be doing two shows. No further details have been released yet, but he has confirmed the news in his latest newsletter.
He has also written that he will be performing last year's Edinburgh Fringe hit Polyphony in Bristol. He will be at the Tobacco Factory for a week from June 20.
Comedian Sarah Silverman has come out in support for left wing Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who she calls a "once in a lifetime candidate".
Silverman explains in the clip below that she is not against Hillary Clinton but that "I met someone I have more in common with...Bernie is not for sale."
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