While applications are still open for in-person shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, many performers won’t make it to Edinburgh this year.
A new show is being launched which will take a comic view of life after lockdown.
Just The Tonic Club's Working From Home night returns on Saturday, March 20 and includes a new interactive pub quiz segment hosted by Johnny Vegas.
Other acts on the bill include Jason Byrne, Hal Cruttenden, Laura Lexx, Chris Turner and Matt Forde. Regulars include Mick Ferry's Two Minute Interview, Scott Bennett (View From A Shed), Tom Binns and Mark Simmons. The show is hosted by creator and JTT owner Darrell Martin.
Sky Studios is expanding its Comedy team with three new hires across indie commissioning and in-house development.
The team, which develops, commissions, and produces original scripted comedy for Sky, this week welcomes Adnan Ahmed and Katie Churchill as in-house Producers with Alex Moody set to join this summer as Commissioning Editor for indie-led projects.
TIM MINCHIN, award-winning comedian, actor and composer, has confirmed new UK dates of his BACK tour this autumn.
Tony Hendra, who was best known to many film fans as Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith, has died. He was 79.
Hendra had a much more extensive comedy career however. He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and had worked with John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He was also involved in Spitting Image in the early days.
He moved to America in 1964 and opened for Lenny Bruce at the Café Au Go Go in New York.
He also worked on satirical magazine National Lampoon.
Jennifer Saunders didn't write the scripts for Absolutely Fabulous. Her daughter Beattie did.
The bombshell is dropped on the upcoming edition of confessions show Unforgivable, which goes out on Dave on Tuesday, March 9 at 10pm.
Katy Wix and Adam Drake release a brand-new podcast in which they travel up and down the country, taking their favourite people from the public eye back to the places of their youth. At each place, the guest talks through their memories (from the hilarious to the poignant), tells stories, and gives a message to their younger self.
It was always going to be tough to top last week's hilarious, compelling opening episode in which five comics mentored five non-comics to prep them for a stand up gig, but this second show in which we see those gigs does a pretty good job. Stand by for more moments that you can only watch through your fingers.
ITV is to make a new show, The Masked Dancer, with dancer Oti Mabuse joining the panel alongside Jonathan Ross, Mo Gilligan and Davina McCall with Joel Dommett (pictured) presenting.
This commission follows the success of The Masked Singer, the final of which attracted a massive consolidated audience of 10 million viewers
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