Paul Sinha - the UK's "funniest fund of forgotten facts", according to The Radio Times - presents a second series of the amazing true stories that lie behind fascinating nuggets of information.
In Series One the British Quiz Champion let the audience know about the bloodbath that was the 1904 Olympic marathon, Donald Trump's pizza adverts, and why the second-biggest-selling single by a UK artist of all time doesn't get played as much as it used to.
In Series Two, he's got more facts
Comic legend Johnny Vegas makes a return to live comedy at this Saturday's online Working From Home show put on by the Just The Tonic Comedy Club.
Gavin and Stacey star Mathew Horne will also be appearing in the guise of ‘Paul Human; Patron to the Arts’. Long before he was a sitcom star Horne was a regular live performer as part of the double act Matt and Mackinnon. He also briefly performed live in sketches with James Corden.
Headline has acquired a hilarious collection of gags and one-liners from stand-up comedian and star of Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo, Gary Delaney.
Senior commissioning editor Richard Roper acquired world rights from Christian Knowles at Blue Book Artist Management working with Rowan Lawton at The Soho Agency.
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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.
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.
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, Chris & Rosie Ramsey have rescheduled their sold out, record-breaking first ever live Shagged. Married.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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