This trilogy literally revisiting three sitcoms loved by hosts Joe Wilkinson and David Earl has been a real gem for TV comedy lovers/nerds. After Porridge and Fawlty Towers the final show looks at The Office. As David Earl explains, he wouldn't have left his own office job and gone into comedy if he hadn't seen this, sent a D-I-Y VHS to Ricky Gervais and landed a whole new career.
NextUp (‘the Netflix of UK stand-up’) has announced the long-list of nominees for the Biggest Award in Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, selected by NextUp members and their panel of scouts.
This year’s longlist features a particularly strong collection of Fringe debuts alongside character comedy, clowning, storytelling and stand-up from across the UK and beyond.
Strictly - It Takes Two returns this September to BBC Two and BBC iPlayer with a new look and a new host: comedian, presenter, and former Strictly contestant Ellie Taylor.
With new episodes premiering every weeknight, It Takes Two will offer a peek behind the curtain at everything that goes into making the UK's favourite dance show.
If you are obviously posh in comedy you might as well own it. Jack Whitehall owns it, Ivo Graham owns and Finlay Christie stakes out similar territory. He portrays himself as privately educated but nice, not one of the ones who wants to end up running the country. Encountering a joiner he points out that his dad is a joiner too.
Climate comedian and veteran podcaster Stuart Goldsmith (Live At The Apollo) brings his second sustainability stand-up show to the Edinburgh Fringe before embarking on a UK tour in September.
Fresh from performing at Netflix Is A Joke for Adam McKay (director of Don’t Look Up), Stuart confronts his climate dread head-on in Canary, a show about how to turn fear into something useful.
Zoe Wohlfeld is having a funeral for her deceased dog Twinkles and you are all invited. Whether you like it or not. Dog funeral is one of those clowning shows where you might have paid to be in the audience but you could just as easily end up in the show. And don't think sitting at the back is going to make you safe.
Eric Idle's latest book Idle In Provence: A Brief History of Thyme is published later this year and tells the story of Idle's attempt to create a rural idyll in France.
In the book Monty Python co-founder Idle, who was also behind the award-winning musical Spamalot, tells the story of how he bought a ramshackle house in France in 1971 and spent over fifty years doing it up and unwinding there, making friends and trying to learn a new language. It is described at the holy grail of vacation memoirs.
Prime Video has revealed the line-up for the Halloween special of the critically acclaimed UK Original, Last One Laughing.
Let’s get this straight from the start. BOYKING! is not like any other show you’ll see at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Not stand-up, not theatre, it’s an absolute blast from start to finish, with London-based American clown Wenker putting in a performance that will blow your tiny minds.
I don't know what Rob Auton has ever done to upset the Edinburgh Comedy Award judges but I've always found his Fringe shows to be some of the shows that have stayed longest in the memory. Sadly I've not been on the panel in the last few years so have had little influence in getting him shortlisted.
But maybe, just maybe, 2026 will be his year.
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