Comedy writer David Quantick is working on a novel entitled The Mule and is looking for funding via publishers Unbound. According to the author "it’s a book about a book. It’s also about murder,... more
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US online superstar Miranda Sings has announced her debut UK tour this November. The tour starts on November 5 at Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall and finishes on November 16 at Glasgow City... more
The Museum of Comedy is to stage its own pick of the Edinburgh Fringe mini-festival from Sept 13 - 28. The Bloomsbury museum, which opened earlier this year will be putting on gigs in its Cooper Room... more
It has been confirmed that Larry David is to make his Broadway acting debut early next year. The Curb Your Enthusiasm star will appear in his own play, Fish in the Dark, which will also star... more
Richard Herring has announced a UK tour for his latest show, Lord of the Dance Settee, following a successful Edinburgh run. The tour officially starts on October 15, 2014 in Manchester and ends on... more
Comedian Simon Evans will be filming his first live DVD in Brighton on September 15. It will be at the Theatre Royal and will be a greatest hits set drawing on material from his recent live shows and... more
Beyond The Joke HQ has been having a post-Fringe clear-out and has come across a previously undiscovered box containing pristine copies of Beyond A Joke, the book that helped to inspire this website... more
The 2014 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns will be playing an extended run of his prize-winning show Shtick in London this autumn. Kearns will be at the Soho Theatre from September... more
Update 4/9/14: News is coming in that 81-year-old comedian Joan Rivers has died in New York. She had been hospitalised last week. She was reportedly having her vocal chords checked when she... more
Lena Dunham, the creator of hit TV comedy Girls, is coming to London for a one-off appearance onstage at the Royal Festival Hall on October 31 with Caitlin Moran. Tickets go on sale today.According... more
