A recent interview with comedian and Catastrophe co-writer Rob Delaney in the Guardian made me stop and think. He mentioned that he was writing a new pilot. He wouldn't say more except that "it’s funny, but is it a comedy? I don’t know if it is. But is there funny in it? Yeah."
Apples and oranges, chalk and cheese, octopus and banana. How do you compare one comedy gig to another when styles and genres these days are so varied?
So here are my top comedy gigs of 2019 very much in no particular order. Impossible to pick one out, but hopefully if you've been reading beyond the joke over the last twelve months some of these are favourites of yours too.
John Kearns - Soho Theatre
Tim Minchin – Eventim Apollo
At any other time of the year I might have given this relatively benign Hugh Grant profile a particularly wide berth, but in the run-up to Christmas it seemed to hit the spot. Let's put it another way. I'd rather sit through an hour of Grant clips and self-deprecating quips than sit through the whole of Love, Actually.
Danny Baker is to head out on tour with veteran DJ "Whispering" Bob Harris. The dates were originally scheduled for 2020 but have now been moved to 2021/2022 - see below for ticket link and dates.
The show, entitled Harris and Baker's Backstage Pass, will find the two seasoned broadcasters reminiscing onstage about their lives in television and rock and roll.
Julian Barratt is one of the guest stars in the second series of The Moomins. He plays Mr Brisk - who is the character in the middle in the picture here.
Rosamund Pike, Matt Berry and Taron Egerton return as Moominmamma, Moominpappa and Moomintroll, along with Barratt, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Oz, Suicide Squad, Thor: The Dark World), Miriam-Teak Lee (Hamilton, & Juliet) and Shalom Brune-Franklin (The State, Bad Mothers, Our Girl).
Award winning comedian and poet Rob Auton launches The Rob Auton Daily Podcast on the 1st January 2020. Episodes from the podcast produced by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions (Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, Audible Live), will be released for 366 consecutive days of the leap year.
Sheffield's David Eagle has been crowned New Comedian of the Year at the final at the Leicester Square Theatre.
Second place went to Josh Baulf.
Joint third was shared between Lily Phillips and Luke Craig,
Mick Ferry was MC and the other finalists were:
UKTV has commissioned a follow-up to Britain’s Greatest Comedian for its comedy channel Gold.
UKTV Original Britain’s Greatest Comedy Character sees a jury of nine comedians, actors, writers, journalists and critics battle it out under the watchful gaze of judge Sally Phillips, as they attempt to agree on who is the country’s greatest.
Bec Hill is taking her deconstructed comedy show Out of Order on the road. The tour starts in Leicester at the Firebug on April 19.
In her show Hill (The Stand-Up Sketch Show, Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit) reveals her set-list and lets the audience choose the order of the show. This means that every performance will be unique and personally tailored not just TO, but BY the crowd.
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