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
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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
BBC Three will air Australian comedy Ronny Chieng: International Student. The seven part series stars Ronny Chieng, the comedian best known for his monologues on America's The Daily Show.Chieng plays... more
The finalists have been announced for Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award.Nine finalists eventually won through four rounds during the past few months, from 500+ initial entries. They are... more
Comedian Roy Chubby Brown's forthcoming gig at Newcastle City Hall has been cancelled. Brown was due to appear there on April 14, 2018, but Newcastle Theatre Royal Trust, the new management... more
Comedy parody Graeme of Thrones is to transfer to London’s Charing Cross Theatre. In this theatrical journey through the Seven Kingdoms, avid ‘Thrones’ fan Graeme just wants to recreate his... more
