March 2016
The death of producer Michael White has been announced. He was 80. In comedy circles he was most famous for his work with Monty Python and The Comic Strip.
White was a legendary figure in showbusiness, whose colourful life in the theatre and movie world was documented in the recent film The Last Impresario, directed by Gracie Otto.
George Martin, who has died aged 90, will always be remembered as the man who produced the Beatles. But before working with the Fab Four he was already well-established as the man behind the mixing desk on a number of comedy recordings.
Alan Partridge is to make his debut on vinyl. He will be immortalised on a picture disc, released by Demon Records especially for Record Store Day 2016.
America’s Got Talent winner Paul Zerdin has postponed his UK dates in September and October. He will, however, be appearing on The Las Vegas Strip in an all-new, headlining production from April 30th. His last UK date will now be at Glasgow's Oran Mor on April 18 following three dates at the Udderbelly in London from April 14th-16th.
He will be responsible for leading the BBC Studios Comedy team across the UK in TV, radio and online. He will manage the existing slate of productions and take the lead in developing new hit shows and working with diverse comedy writers and performers.
Comedian Alexis Dubus has made the news in Australia following a Facebook post in which he criticised the current Adelaide Fringe Festival.
Jenny Eclair was forced to postpone shows on her current How To Be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane) tour at the weekend due to illness.
On Saturday she apologised to her fans via Twitter: "I'm on steroids for a chest infection. I was gasping for air on stage last night I'm so sorry everyone - I need to mend."
Performances at the Y in Leicester and the Stables in Milton Keynes were postponed. Tickets will be transferable to the new dates when they are announced.
Warning. This episode contains skipping. Sure enough, Lee suckered his TV viewers in last week with a relatively benign look at the nature of modern comedy and a few cheeky swipes at his fellow entertainers. This week he goes for the jugular, addressing the more tricky question of the rise of Islamophobia and the acceptability of jokes about religion.
Eshaan Akbar has become a familiar name on the comedy circuit in the last few months. He has featured in finals of various competitions and he won the Piccadilly Comedy Club New Comedian of the Year 2016 in January. Yesterday marked two years since Akbar did his first live stand-up gig.
I’m not sure how much it qualifies as a comedy now that it has got proper scary, but I’m really enjoying Stag. It’s not just the great cast, including Jim Howick, Stephen Campbell Moore, JJ Feild and Amit Shah, or the great scenery or the punch-to-the-gut-killings, it’s pretty much everything.
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