The Establishment Club, the legendary haven for satire founded by Peter Cook, is to become a television show with a modern talent show twist. Fronted by Keith Allen the Club will take the form of a... more
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The Birmingham Comedy Festival returns this October with big names, international stars and much more, running from Friday 6 to Sunday 15 October 201). Among the acts set to appear at the... more
As well as performing his own daily show at The Stand during the Edinburgh Festival, comedian Tony Law is giving a lucky few people a guided tour around some of Edinburgh’s historical sites.Being a... more
BAFTA-winning stand-up Iain Stirling, the voice of Love Island, has sold out his entire run ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe officially opening. Extra dates have just been added at the... more
Stand-up comedian and broadcaster Stephen K Amos has announced a new tour for 2017/2018 entitled Bread and Circuses. His main aim is to cheer us up for a moment and try to help us forget what a mess... more
Last week Beyond The Joke broke the news that comedian JoJo Smith had to cancel her Edinburgh Fringe run due to illness. Details here. Furthermore she needed almost £9000 to pay for an urgent... more
Organisers of the annual Leicester Comedy Festival are appealing to comedy fans and members of the public to pledge money to enable the festival to develop their support for new and emerging... more
London comedian Ian Stone has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money to publish a memoir about his music-fixated childhood. To Be Someone is about growing up in North London and being... more
Jack Gleadow, has won the New Comedian Of the Year Final at the Great Yorkshire Fringe.Gleadow, who is from Hull, was previously International Young Magician in 2013 but gave up magic to concentrate... more
Kate Phillips, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning, and Dan McGolpin, Controller, Programming and Daytime, today announced the appointment of Jo Street to the newly created role of Commissioning... more
