Katherine Ryan has extended the tour of her latest show, Glam Role Model, into 2015 due to popular demand.
In Katherine Ryan’s homeland of Canada, it isn’t unheard of for women to expose their breasts in public. To her amusement, however, here in the UK this questionable pastime actually has a title: ‘glamour modelling’.
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 suffered respiratory problems and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Her daughter Melissa said she died peacefully surrounded by family and friends.
Please don't call me a traitor but I didn't think the first epsiode of the new Friday night chat show fronted by Claudia Winkleman was very good. I'm sure it'll improve from here and as a big chat show fan I will be faithful to it, but despite all the effort that must've gone into getting the show right it is starting from a pretty low bar.
I could quickly list the things that were wrong with it.
Comedian Brennan Reece is the latest guest to join the League of Improv onstage. On 26 March, Brennan will leap onto the stage of The Phoenix Arts Club to join the regular team of crackshot performers.
Scotland’s largest comedy festival is officially underway, with Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) unveiling the Shortlist for this year’s Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award. Amanda Dwyer, Kim Blythe, Susan Riddell, Zara Gladman and more are now in the running to win the prestigious prize in the Big Yin’s name, with the winner announced on the event’s final day at the GICF Comedy Gala, as chosen by a panel of judges and Sir Billy Connolly himself.
Francesca Moody Productions and Shedinburgh have announced that applications for the 2026 Shedload-of-Future Fund will open on Wednesday 11th March 2026. The fund is available to all applicable performers and companies spanning theatre, comedy, music and the performing arts, increasing support available to first-time Edinburgh Fringe performers.
The all-new Norwich Comedy Garden arrives in Chapelfield Gardens from 1st - 5th July 2026, making it the sixth in the Comedy Garden festival series, with further festivals announced imminently for Cambridge, Greenwich, St Albans and Brighton.
Glasgow-based comedian Christopher Macarthur-Boyd has been announced as the winner of the 2026 Next Big Thing award, a prize - organised by British Comedy Guide - that was created to recognise one comedy act every year: whomever is most deserving of the public’s attention and the media’s spotlight.
Eva Peroni has been announced as winner of the ‘Brass Tacks Debut Fund’, with the 21 year old set to make her Fringe debut this August, supported by Red Bull UK. The Livingston local, and one of the Scottish circuit’s youngest comedians, will perform her debut ‘Jungled’ at renowned comedy venue Gilded Balloon’s Teviot Row House this summer.
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