News: Count Arthur Strong Announces Twentieth Anniversary Tour

Heroic entertainer Count Arthur Strong is to celebrate two decades in showbusiness with a brand new tour in 2022.

The And This Is Me! Tour will start on February 9 at the Wimborne Tivoli and currently ends on June 2 at the Birmingham Alexandra Theatre.

News: Comedians Appear In New Film About Indie Music Scene

Comedians Richard Herring, Nick Helm and Alan Francis are among the cast of a new movie set in the world of noughties indie music entitled Giddy Stratospheres. 

The makers describe the film like this: "Daniel and Lara spiral in the centre of the storm and broken glass that was the 00's Indie Music Scene. They don't miss a gig. They don't miss a beat. After the furious joy of dancing all night darker spells loom. How far can they push it, when they don't want the night to end?

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News: Celebrities And Trainers Revealed For C4's Stand Up And Deliver

Channel 4 has confirmed the five plucky celebrities who are set to be thrust into the often unforgiving world of stand-up comedy for Stand Up and Deliver, an entertaining new two-part series in support of Stand Up To Cancer.

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News: New Show For Rhod Gilbert

Comedy Central UK has greenlit brand new comedy commission ‘Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains’, hosted by, you guessed it, Rhod Gilbert

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News: Vicar Of Dibley Returns for Christmas Lockdown Specials

Dawn French is to reprise her much-loved role as the nation’s favourite Vicar, Geraldine Grainger of the Parish of Dibley, for The Vicar Of Dibley in three Lockdown specials to mark the end of this extraordinary year.  

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News: New Podcast For Vic Reeves/Jim Moir and Jools Holland

Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, and Jools Holland are making a podcast together.

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News: Louis Theroux Podcast Grounded Returns With Guests Including Michaela Coel, Frankie Boyle, Ruby Wax

Louis Theroux's acclaimed lockdown podcast Grounded is set to return to BBC Sounds on Monday 30 November.

Like many, Louis turned his hand to something new at the beginning of the pandemic. In the podcast he has stripped-back discussions with some of the people he has always admired, covering everything from careers to personal foibles and frailties and how they are coping with what is happening in the world.

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News: It's A Rap – Dogged Determination From Bill Bailey On Strictly

Bill Bailey won over the judges with his dance to Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang on Strictly Come Dancing.

The musical comedian and his partner Oti Mabuse donned smart pin-striped suits for their dance to the classic rap number and got huge cheers from the people in the studio.

Craig Revel Horwood called him "the king of pop and lock. I absolutely loved the amount of detail in that." 

Shirley Ballas said: "You are the real deal. I'm in awe." 

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Video: Taskmaster - Richard Herring, Daisy May Cooper Feed Each Other Watermelons

I was a bit worried when I heard that there was a task that involved watermelons in the latest episode of Taskmaster on Channel 4. There was a watermelon challenge in the very first episode, back in 2015, when the challenge was won by Frank Skinner.

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News: Rosie Jones To Headline Online Benefit

Comedian Rosie Jones, who made a huge impact on Question Time this week discussing disability and discrimination, headlines an online show at the South Bank Centre on November 22 at 8pm.

Refugee and migrant comedy collective No Direction Home return to the South Bank Centre as part of the Inside Out season.

Jones will be joined by new stand-up comedians mentored by award-winning comedian Tom Parry. They are Edin Suljic, Krishna Vytelingum, Nour-ani Sisserian and Yasmeen Gharwi.

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