Comedians, podcasters and BBC Radio 5 Live presenters Elis James and John Robins have released the second instalment of The Isolation Tapes, following on from yesterday’s opener.
Elis and John’s Isolation Tapes will consist of conversations recorded in the respective homes of the two 5 Live comedians. The pair, self-isolating individually, will continue to remain socially distant whilst trying to make sense of the reality we’re all now faced with.
Spencer Jones has clearly become something of a hot property in TV circles in recent years. As a result he has landed not one, but two TV series, last year's The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk and now this, Mister Winner, in which following a 2017 pilot, Jones plays lovable loser Leslie Winner.
BBC Comedy has announced two brand new sketch show series and one returning series.
Following their critically acclaimed pilots last year for BBC Three, both Ellie & Natasia and Lazy Susan will return for a full series run. Also, Famalam, the comedy sketch show where no area of the universe is off limits, will return later this year for a third series with a brand new addition to the cast in Danielle Vitalis (pictured, solo).
In the late eighties/early nineties there was a bit of a vogue for doing interviews in unusual ways. Paula Yates did hers on a bed on The Big Breakfast and I remember Rowland Rivron doing them while in the Thames. But one sprang to mind recently that is painfully appropriate and I've not seen anyone else mention it. It's A Fry and Laurie sketch in which the interviews were conducted "standing quite a long way away from".
And so the third and final series of This Country bows out in style. There was always a risk that the third run would see the quality drop off, but it ends as strongly as it began. And actually, unusually for a sitcom where the key is that things never change, there is a significant change here.
After three sublime series This Country sadly draws to a close this evening.
To celebrate the final episode of the multi-award winning comedy, BBC Three took a life-size statue of Kerry Mucklowe to the Cotswolds. Kerry has been immortalised deep in philosophical thought just like Rodin’s famous statue The Thinker.
I'm going to do a thing that I don't think I've ever seen a critic do before. I'm going to say that my review was wrong. When I reviewed the first episode of the latest series of The Trip, set in Turkey and Greece, I wrote how I was disappointed by it. Having watched the first episode I felt that the tone had changed.
Comedian Josh Widdicombe is certainly using his enforced leisure time usefully. He has decided to sort out his tea bags.
He posted the news on his Instagram account and explained his action: "Lockdown given me a chance to sort out my herbal teas." See picture here.
Unfortunately the second picture he posted explained his further remark: "Sadly it has already been ruined. #livid19" It was a picture of a small child who has tipped his bags all ove the floor." Not so much infusions as confusions.
I must be getting live comedy withdrawal symptoms, I dreamt about being at a Stewart Lee gig the other night. Still maybe help is at hand. Comedians have been quick to get stuck into the online world with Robin Ince pulling in a lot of friends for a veritable online Comedy festival next week. But first out of the blocks was Scott Bennett, who last night broadcast a live one hour stand-up set from his garden shed via his Facebook page.
A crowdfunding campaign set up to support comedians facing financial hardship during the Coronavirus pandemic has quickly reached its target and is now aiming for a higher target.
#HeckleTheVirus was one of the initiatives of comedy streaming service NextUp.
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