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.
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.
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