The final of this year's Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year competition has taken place at, yes, the Leicester Square Theatre.
The compere was Amy Gledhill and fourteen acts competed in the final.
Previous finalists include Rob Beckett, Rachel Parris, Jessica Fostekew, Tez Ilyas, Tim Renkow, Nigel Ng, Rosie Holt, Alasdair Becket-King, Olga Koch, Ian Smith, Viggo Venn, Sofie Hagen & many more.
And the results are as follows:
After 200,000 public votes were registered in the awards’ tenth anniversary year, it’s time to reveal the winners of the I Talk Telly Awards 2024.
Since launching in 2015, the I Talk Telly Awards, created by founder Elliot Gonzalez, have now seen almost 2.5 million votes registered, celebrating programmes and talent across Comedy, Drama, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Factual and Soaps.
Another terrific performance from Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell...
Watch Chris & Dianne Charleston to When You're Smiling by The Blue Vipers Of Brooklyn below.
Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) has today announced a partnership with The Alasdair Gray Archive (AGA) to celebrate the iconic artist and writer, Alasdair Gray, as part of the wider Glasgow 850 Festival programme.
Alexander Bennett’s comedy has been variously described as dark, silly, filthy and thoughtful. He is the co-host, along with comedian Andy Barr, and creator of the high concept Chortle Award nominated podcast Born Yesterday, which has had guests including Phil Wang, Jordan Gray and John Kearns. He has performed his shows on the West End at London's prestigious Soho Theatre. This show is recommended by the British Comedy Guide and had a joke featured in The Times' top jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Taskmaster star Emma Sidi is among the comedians taking part in this year's celebrity Christmas editions of University Challenge chaired by Amol Rajan (pictured). Also in the line-ups are Jessica Fostekew, Jamie MacDonald, Danny Robins and Debra Stephenson.
The BBC has released new pictures for Video Nasty, a six part original comedy drama written by Hugh Travers, set to air in January 2025.
It will be broadcast on BBC Northern Ireland, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer in the UK, Virgin Media Television in the Republic of Ireland and ARD-Mediathek in Germany.
At a time when cracking open a bottle of the best bubbly and curling up with a laugh-out-loud novel seems more appealing than ever, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2024 has been awarded to Ferdia Lennon for his exquisitely unique and funny debut novel Glorious Exploits, published by Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.
Being loud, brazen and a little bit lairy was all Matt needed to propel himself onto the comedy circuit aged 18 and be presenting national telly by 22. But faster than you can say ‘Celebrity Coach Trip’ he suddenly finds himself in his 30s, so what’s next for the lad?
Matt has moved to the countryside, settled down, and is trying his hardest to not make rude jokes. It’s not going as well as he’d hoped...
BBC Studios and Touchscreen Limited have today announced their UK development partnership.
The agreement will see BBC Studios and Touchscreen, founded by Armando Iannucci, work together to develop and co-produce innovative, daring and world-class scripted programming for the UK and international markets, distributed by BBC Studios.
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