Comedian Myra Dubois is to appear on Britain's Got Talent.
Character comic Dubois appears on the sixth episode which airs at 8pm on ITV1 on Saturday, May 16.
Dubois attempts to impress judges Simon Cowell, David Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden with some stand-up and a distinctive rendition of the Annie Lennox hit Why.
The full line-up of the show is below. It also apparently includes a guinea pig from Nottingham who does stand-up...
Well at least one good thing has come out of this bloody pandemic. We've got another Wipe. And while this one was filmed under lockdown social distancing conditions it didn't really hit the production in the way it has hit something like the studio-based Mash Report as Wipes always rely on a mix of footage and Charlie "happy birthday twice” Brooker sitting alone. The only difference here was that his desk was made of cardboard.
A decade ago I wrote a book about the phenomenon of comedians having mental health issues. Except that when Beyond A Joke* was published society had not really started talking that much publicly about mental health, so instead the focus was on "the dark side" of comedy. Same shit, different name.
Comedian Robert Webb's debut novel is to be adapted for TV. Come Again was published by Canongate in April and has now been optioned by Firebird Pictures.
The book tells the story of Kate, whose husband Luke - the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago - dies suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friends, lost her job and everything is starting to fall apart.
Despite – or maybe because of – the current lockdown, Chris and Rosie Ramsey’s award-winning hit podcast Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. produced by Avalon, has continued to entertain its loyal fanbase and attract a growth of 700,000 listens week on week as it hits the staggering 25 million downloads mark, as well as consistently topping the charts since launching in February 2019.
Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for Central Park, the new comedy from the creators of Bob's Burgers.
Comedian Tom Binns is hoping to get the live comedy circuit moving again – with socially distanced drive-in comedy gigs.
Binns (aka Hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury) got the idea from romantic drive-in cinemas in America. "It will be just like the ones you've seen in the movies but with live comedy and rain and it will probably be in a Lidl car park."
BBC Sounds has launched a new podcast fronted by Jacob Hawley in which he looks at how people have been forced to look for new ways of earning a living during the pandemic.
He previously had a critical success on BBC Sounds with his podcast Jacob Hawley on Drugs in which he looked at contemporary drug culture.
Hawley is a comedian whose live work dried up overnight when the lockdown started so may need a new job soon himself.
Comedian Mo Gilligan's new C4 show was hit by a last-minute major technical problem on Monday night and could not go out as planned. Instead the entertainer put on a spontaneous show on his Instragam live feed and raised money for the charity Crisis.
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