March 2016
Dates have been confirmed all over the UK for James Acaster's next tour.
The four-times Foster's Award nominee will be starting his tour at Oxford's Glee Club on September 22 and dates currently run until the Pheonix in Exeter on November 30.
We all know about posh comedians. There are probably more privately educated stand-ups around at the moment than there were boarding school alumni at the BAFTAS. I don’t need to list the names. But what struck me this week is that venues look like they are going upmarket too.
Update - Romesh Ranganathan has now joined the line-up below.
Following the all-star comedians' fight night fundraiser for Kian Musgrove a benefit stand-up gig has also been arranged. Caring for Kian takes place in Brighton on April 6.
The first batch of names for this year's Latitude Festival has been announced today.
There is a big crossover between comedy and theatre this year with stand-up Liam Williams writing a new comedy play which will be performed for the first time at Latitude. Mel Giedroyc will perform at Latitude in the Hammersmith Lyric theatre's the Importance of Being Earnest and award-winning comedian and playwright Mark Thomas will bring his new stand up theatre show Red Shed to the festival.
Stewart Lee has said that nobody is competent to review him. It’s a sentiment he echoes early on in the first episode of his new six-part BBC2 series. So after thinking about doing something more useful with my time I decided to have a go. Does he mean it? It’s a remark like a lot of remarks in this episode. They can be taken as face value, they can be taken as a wry postmodern joke. Or maybe both. It's a very layered show, that's for sure. Not so much a comedy vehicle as a comedy Viennetta.
The world premiere of Cosmic Genome’s The Quest for Wonder, starring comedian Robin Ince and physicist Brian Cox alongside their puppet counterparts, will be held at the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre as part of Science Museum Lates. The screening will take place at 7:30pm on 30th March 2016. After the screening, the cast and crew will be available for a Q&A.
Bridget Christie is releasing her first live DVD special. Bridget Christie: Stand-Up For Her will be out later this year. To prepare for the filming in May the acclaimed comic is doing a season of warm-up shows in small venues around London over the next few months.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner's shows and DVD will feature the best bits of her last three full-length Edinburgh Fringe and West End sell-out shows. Dates are below.
Comedian Darius Davies found himself interviewed by BBC News this week about witnessing a drunken in-flight incident. Except that he did not witness it.
A Ryanair flight heading for Bratislava had been re-routed to Berlin due to the rowdy behaviour of a British stag party. The BBC had asked if anyone was one the flight and would like to comment.
If casting is any guide – and it usually is – Sky's new comedy Camping should be very special indeed.
Nighty Night and Hunderby creator Julia Davis writes, directs and stars in this tale of a couples’ camping trip that goes horribly wrong*.
Update 10/12: For the latest news on Joel Dommett gigs click here.
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