Following on from their video for The Spook School’s Speak When You’re Spoken To, Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry of Pappy’s have directed the new video for the single from Fortuna... more
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After two semi-finals the last six comedians in the BBC New Comedy Awards have been confirmed.The final will be compered by Mark Watson (pictured) at the Edinburgh Fringe from 6pm and will be... more
I, Daniel Blake, the new film directed by Ken Loach and starring comedian Dave Johns has won the Public Prize Award at the Locarno Film Festival.Johns had been at the festival and was due to return... more
The new series of Red Dwarf is to return to Dave in September.Red Dwarf XI will air from September 22 at 9pm, but it will also be available online a week early from September 15 on the UKTV Play... more
Richard Wilson has cancelled his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show reviving his acclaimed sitcom character Victor Meldrew after suffering a heart attack. He was due to perform I Don’t Believe It!... more
BBC Three has announced a fourth raft of Comedy Feeds featuring rising talent. This year's batch includes A Brief History of Tim written by and starring Tim Renkow, Fail featuring... more
The spoof poster advertising Nathan Cassidy's fictional 2017 UK Arena tour is in the running for the Edinburgh Fringe's Best Poster Award.As reported on beyondthejoke yesterday, Cassidy is doing a... more
BBC Two has announced three further sitcoms for the ‘New on Two’ strand airing next month as part of the BBC Landmark Sitcom Season. Our Ex Wife, We The Jury and The Coopers Vs... more
Comedian Nathan Cassidy has come up with one of the best publicity stunts so far at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.A fake poster has appeared in the pedestrian underpass by the major Pleasance... more
Josh Widdicombe and his co-presenter Georgie Ainslie are both leaving the Radio 5 sports show Fighting Talk.After two seasons at the helm of the award winning Saturday morning quiz Widdicombe and... more
