We've all got skeletons in the cupboard. Things we've done for cold hard cash when times were hard. Comedian Michael Legge is no expection. Before he became an angry stand-up comedian he did some television ads. One that has recently surfaced features Legge advertising electronics shop Tandy. In the advert a smiling Legge with a bowlcut coiffure pops up around the shop smiling and encouraging people to buy things like mini-TVs and radio alarms. The one saving grace may be that he doesn't have any lines...
Surviving members of the cast of 'Allo 'Allo have reunited to celebrate the unveiling of a blue plaque at Lynford Hall, the Norfolk country house in Thetford that served as the filming location for Nouvion town square and the exterior of Café René in the classic BBC sitcom.
2019 marks the 35th anniversary of David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd's iconic WW2 French Resistance sitcom.
The event also included a gala lunch and and an auction of memorabilia from the series.
Ten comedians best known for their shows and work in Australia are to film stand-up specials in Melbourne for Amazon Prime Video.
They are Lano & Woodley, filming their show FLY, Zoë Coombs Marr filming Bossy Bottom, Judith Lucy filming Judith Lucy vs Men, Tommy Little filming Self-Diagnosed Genius, Tom Walker filming Very Very, Celia Pacquola filming All Talk, Anne Edmonds filming What’s Wrong With You?, Dilruk Jayasinha filming Live and Tom Gleeson filming Joy. Alice Fraser is filming her show Savage on September 10.
Desiree Burch is going on tour following an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe. The Desiree’s Coming Early! tour starts at Swindon Arts Centre on 4th October 2019 and includes a two week residency at Soho Theatre from Monday 11th November 2019. Tickets are on sale now here.
Award-winning podcast, ‘The Guilty Feminist’ will travel to the BBC Proms on Saturday 14 September for a unique episode looking back at the 2019 season ahead of the Last Night of the Proms.
Deborah Frances-White will bring her celebrated comedy set to the BBC Proms in front of a live audience. She will be joined by Last Night of the Proms soloist Jamie Barton, BBC Proms composer Errollyn Wallen and comedian, Jayde Adams.
Multi award winning David Benson is to lead an all-star cast in a new audio recording of the Frankie Howerd comedy classic, ‘Up Pompeii’.
Revisiting the world of Frankie Howerd from his accclaimed one-man stage show, ‘To Be Frank’, David Benson will don the toga to play one of Frankie’s greatest comedy roles - Lurcio the ancient Roman slave.
A man who raped and killed Australian comedian Eurydice Dixon has been sentenced to life in prison in a court in Victoria.
Jaymes Todd, 20, pleaded guilty to the violent attack on comedian Dixon in a Melbourne park. Dixon had been on her way home after performing at a nearby comedy gig.
The judge described Todd's crimes as "totally and categorically evil" and went on to say "You waited until Eurydice was well into the dark reaches of Princes Park."
London’s free-thinking comedy club Comedy Unleashed is taking the same comedians with the same stand-up routines to both Labour and Conservative Party conferences this September. Will Remainers and Leavers laugh at the same jokes about Brexit? Will feminists laugh about jokes on the #MeToo movement? Will Tories laugh about Boris? And can Labour laugh about Corbyn? Are some jokes unacceptable?
I think it's fair to say that Janine Harouni had a pretty good Edinburgh Fringe debut this August. The London-based New Yorker won the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Award, the Amused Moose Comedy Award and was shortlisted for Best Newcomer in the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Awards. I had an inkling Harouni's tales of growing up with a Trump-supporting dad and having a near-fatal car crash would do well when I interviewed her for the Evening Standard in June.
Up The Creek’s legendary One to Watch Competition is to return to find the next generation of comedy stars.
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