Award-winning comedian and star of hit show Serious Black Jumper (Amazon Prime Video) which enjoyed viral success on TikTok where a section of the show reached 19 Million views, Jayde Adams welcomes viewers to a weekly interactive cabaret night streamed as live across social media.
As COVID-19 crashes into the arts industry, gigs are cancelled, festivals are closing and both paid and unpaid work in the industry has all but dried up, people in comedy need some help. Production company, Objectively Funny are producing a free virtual mental health Magazine to support the comedy industry and beyond in this tumultuous time.
“CUTS" is a new web-based sketch show directed by stand-up Pierre Novellie. The supporting cast is pretty good too. It features:
Garrett Millerick
Rose Johnson
Jason Forbes
Harriet Kemsley
Camille Ucan
Sunil Patel
Lulu Popplewell
Sara Barron
Ed Night
Rich Wilson
George Fouracres
Mark Smith
Theo Chester
Watch Cuts below.
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.
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