Multi-media performer John Robertson is to host a marathon session of his anarchic, interactive, live-action videogame comedy The Dark Room.
The BBC is to celebrate the acts of kindness, humour and the spirit of hope and resilience that are keeping the nation going during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic with a special night of programming for BBC One.
Sir Lenny Henry has confirmed the first three celebs taking part – Peter Kay, Catherine Tate and Gary Barlow. Further names to be revealed in due course.
Comedian Paul Pirie has tackled isolation and the coronavirus crisis in the only way a comedian can - by making a funny series of videos. Watch below as Pirie tackles pandemic-induced loneliness and what to do with those precious toilet rolls. Oh and he also has a take on Tiger King Joey Exotic.
Comedy duo The Awkward Silence have won a national comedy competition, bagging £1000 prize money for their video sketch.
Ralph Jones, aged 30 from Oxford, wrote and produced a short film with his comedy partner, Vyvyan Almond, 28 from London. The winning entry tells the peculiar history of a common household utensil, the spoon.
Comedian Eddie Large has died. He was 78.
His son Ryan McGinnis has revealed that the comedian, real name Edward Hugh McGinnis, who was famous for his comedy partnership with Syd Little, had been in hospital with heart failure and had contracted the Covid-19 virus.
The Edinburgh Fringe Society has just issued a new statement regarding the Fringe Festival 2020. It is published in full below.
"Just a few months ago, the idea of Edinburgh without the Fringe and our sister festivals would have been totally unthinkable; now, like so many other aspects of our day-to-day lives, we must pause and take stock in the face of something far bigger.
Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer Nominee Bilal Zafar was working on a new online comedy series when the coronavirus crisis struck. Luckily he already has five episodes filmed and ready to go so has started to release them. In each episode Zafar offers advice to an actor who he thinks may be underperforming or not reaching their potential. Zafar is a stand-up but has also had acting roles in C4's Catastrophe, Last Christmas and Hollyoaks. His first masterclass is out now and features guest Josie Long.
Watch Daisy Cooper respond to Charlie farting on set. Watch Paul Chahidi do weird vocal exercises as "boiled egg in the dog collar" Reverend Seaton. Watch Daisy try to wrangle a big chicken called Margot.
Watch the whole series on iPlayer here.
April 11th will be the one year anniversary of the sudden death of comedian Ian Cognito.
The famously anarchic stand-up, whose real name was Paul Barbieri, suffered a heart attack and died while performing at the Lone Wolf Comedy Club at the Atic in Bicester on Thursday, April 11, 2019.
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