The Funny Women Stage Award 2020 virtual heats’ lists have been announced.325 submission videos have been viewed, reviewed and scored at least three times by both Funny Women and independent judges.... more
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The team behind the bar at lockdown comedy pub The Covid Arms have now raised £100,000 to support The Trussell Trust in just 12 weeks since the start of their weekly live comedy night. Kiri... more
Comedian Jason Manford is launching an online stand up comedy night. The Weekly Stand Up will launch on Thursday, June 25 at 8pm, and is set to run for the next eight weeks. He is aiming for it to be... more
For One Night Only comedy collective Weirdos Comedy in partnership with NextUp Now will be streaming a live show featuring comedians recreating Computer Games in their own home. Half of the cast... more
A new, unashamedly Jewish comedy chat show for a mainstream audience launches on Friday, 26th June 2020, created and hosted by comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon."Jew Talkin' to Me?" is a... more
Actor John Benfield has died. He was with the same agency as Sir Ian Holm and his death was announced in a statement alongside the death of Holm. “We are very sad that two of our wonderful... more
Comedians Rosie Jones and Helen Bauer are to release a special Father's Day edition of their podcast Daddy Look at Me.In this edition which comes out on Sunday, June 21 they will be interviewing... more
Mark Rylance is to play the lead role in a comedy about golf written by comedian/actor Simon Farnaby. Rylance will play Maurice Flitcroft in The Fantastic Flitcrofts, which tells the story of a... more
The death of Sir Ian Holm at the age of 88 has prompted fulsome tributes for his straight acting roles in films such as Alien, Chariots of Fire and Lord of the Rings, in which he played Bilbo Baggins... more
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan. The series, co-produced by Expectation and Gilligan’s production company Momo G, will return to Channel 4 next year. ... more
