News: Funny Women Awards Announces Longlists

  1. The Funny Women Awards 2020 have three major announcements:

    The longlists for Comedy Writing and Comedy Shorts Awards are here and award winning actor, writer, stand-up and previous winner of the Funny Women Awards Andi Osho is revealed as Head Judge for The Funny Women Comedy Shorts Award 2020.

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News: Dark Comedy Guilt Returns for Second Series

Following the success of the acclaimed award-winning drama Guilt, BBC Two and BBC Scotland have announced that it will return for a second four-part series.

Written by Neil Forsyth (Eric, Ernie And Me, Bob Servant) and co-produced by Expectation and Happy Tramp North, Guilt aired on both BBC Two and on BBC Scotland in 2019.

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News: Rescheduled Dates for Shagged. Married. Annoyed.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, Chris & Rosie Ramsey have rescheduled their sold out, record-breaking first ever live Shagged. Married.

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News: New Jason Byrne Tour Dates Announced

Following the closure of UK theatres due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jason Byrne has announced that his 2020 UK tour has been rescheduled for Autumn next year. Details of how to exchange tickets will follow in the coming weeks. 

Though disappointed to have to put on hold his 25th year of consecutive touring and delay the anniversary celebrations, Jason will be more ready than ever to shower the UK in his popular and much-loved mayhem and hilarity next year. 

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News: ReincarNathan Returns With Guests Romesh Ranganathan, James Acaster, Sally Phillips

Life after death comedy ReincarNathan returns to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds, Thursday 9 July at 18:30, welcoming back Daniel Rigby and Diane Morgan, joined by Daniel Lawrence Taylor, Sally Phillips, Romesh Ranganathan, James Acaster and a host of special guest stars.

News: Comedy Company Looks Into Worldwide Garden Gigs

The people behind the Greater Manchester Fringe, Camden Fringe, World Fringe and Eventotron are looking into the possibility of staging comedy gigs in people's gardens.

They have set up a page, entitled Garden Fringe, where people can register an interest.

The ambition is that this could be a worldwide, socially distanced fringe festival in private gardens everywhere with all ticket income going directly to the artists.

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News: Shappi Khorsandi Speaks Out About Comedy's Recent #Metoo Movement

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi has spoken out about sexual misconduct in the comedy industry, saying that “In the nineties, we thought feminism was matching the men pint for pint, and pretending we really enjoyed one-night stands. We never verbalised the horrible stuff that was going on.”

Khorsandi was being interview by fellow comedian Tom Price for his podcast My Mate Bought A Toaster, in which celebrities are interviewed in a memorable new way – on a trip back through their Amazon purchase history.

News: Daniel Sloss To Be Interviewed By Richard Herring Tonight

Acclaimed stand-up comedian Daniel Sloss will be interviewed by Richard Herring live on Twitch tonight.

Sloss will be talking about various topics including his imminent Drive-In live shows in London as part of the Drive-In Club, which will be the first major live comedy shows in the capital since the lockdown. He is doing three shows in Brent Cross in north London this weekend.

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News: Jason Manford Stand-Up Show Line-Up Announced

The line-up has been announced for the second Jason Manford Presents: The Weekly Stand Up which takes place on Thursday July 2. The show will run online every Thursday at 8pm for the next seven weeks, until 13 August. 

Show number two features Debra Digiovanni, Jena Friedman (pictured), Milton Jones and Harry Hill (pictured), and follows a first show, which The Times said Jason and co did “a fine job of summoning up some of the energy of a real live comedy night.”

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News: Comedy Legend Carl Reiner Dies

Comedy legend Carl Reiner has died. He was 98.

Reiner's lengthy career took in writing for comedy greats, creating the Dick Van Dyke Show, directing the hit Steve Martin movies The Jerk and The Man With Two Brains and much more.

He worked regularly with Mel Brooks, famously in the classic The 2000 Year Old Man sketch. Brooks recently celebrated his 94th birthday. 

One of Carl's children is Rob Reiner, the director of This Is Spinal Tap.

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