Mock the Week returns to TLC from Sunday 13th September at 9pm, and as Parliament’s recess concludes and Britain emerges from a summer of record-breaking heatwaves and football fever, the show gets straight back to business, pulling apart the week's headlines in real time.
Comedians can't resist the lure of the Edinburgh Fringe. Just as they are out they get pulled back in. Whether it's for the money, the acclaim or just getting a warm hand on their entrance a number of previous Edinburgh Comedy Award winners are back this year. Over the last couple of days, almost by accident, I realised I'd seen four previous award winners.
Ania Magliano (Monkey Barrel, five stars) has the full set. She has been on Taskmaster, she is one of the breakout stars of SNL UK and now she has a superb stand-up show under her belt (although, I should add, her previous shows have all been pretty good). In Peach Fuzz she explores body image, in particular her own body image.
A few months ago a friend wanted to take his brother for a night out and asked me to recommend a comedy show. I recommended Pierre Novellie. My friend didn't like it, although he acknowledged that everybody else in the room did. I'm going to have to seriously rethink my friendships as Novellie is one of the top stand-ups plying their trade at the moment. And he's prolific too. He's already back with a brand new show, Okay, One More Then Bedtime (Monkey Barrel, four stars). I think he's aced it again.
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.
Missing detectives, multiple murders and high-ranking cover-ups. It can mean only one thing... Ludwig is back!
In 2016 Richard Gadd won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show for a performance which featured him pounding a treadmill throughout the gig. In Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge performer Lyons spends the entire hour on barefoot tip toes.
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