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.
Vic Reeves co-hosts the new Netflix series The Big Flower Fight alongside Natatsia Demetriou from Stath Lets Flats.
The eight-part series sees ten creative teams square off in a larger-than-life contest to create huge flower installations, with Reeves and Demetriou on hand to give the contestants some moral support.
The Big Flower Fight
Kate Hewson at Two Roads has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in award-winning comedian Laura Lexx’s imaginary diary of life married to Jürgen Klopp, Klopp Actually, as well as Pivot, a novel about an amateur women’s netball team, from Diana Beaumont at Marjacq in association with Andrew Roach Talent. Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob will publish in hardback, eBook and audio on September 3, 2020, with Pivot published in 2022.
Can you discuss how The First Team came together - where did the idea for the series come from?
Jerry Seinfeld arrives for his latest Netflix special by helicopter and beats the New York traffic by jumping out and landing in the water. It's a) pretty impressive for a 65-year-old stand-up comedian and b) probably the riskiest thing in this special.
You don't go to Seinfeld for artistic envelope-pushing or taboo-busting. You go for solid, concentrated comedy about our human foibles with not a word wasted. And that's pretty much what you get here. Nothing less, but nothing more.
The funeral has taken place of Carol Sarler, who was the first regular newspaper comedy critic in the UK.
Sarler died in April. Her death was not Covid19-related, but because of restrictions only eight people were allowed at the funeral and had to socially distance.
The acclaimed Ricky Gervais series After Life is to return for a third series on Netflix.
Jordan Brookes won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2019 for I've Got Nothing, a show that was substantially improvised. But this show, Bleed, from 2018, is the show that should have won him the award. It was the sequel to his breakthrough Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated set Body of Work, and cemented his reputation as one of comedy's most trippy talents, taking comedy for strolls into strange places.
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