New sponsor, new comedy! Digital TV channel Dave is sponsoring the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for the first time this year. So they, as well as the rest of us hungry humour vampires, must be on the look out for new comedy blood.
Last year Ciarán Dowd from sketch group Beasts broke out with his acclaimed solo show Don Rodolfo, which won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. Could it be the turn of fellow Beast James McNicholas this year, who steps into the solo ring with The Boxer, which, like Don Rodolfo, is directed by comic Tom Parry?
With her camouflage designer frock, her fuck off boots and her pink tipped hair Samantha Pressdee looks every inch the urban warrior.
And she genuinely puts herself on the frontline – having joined the anarchist squatters protesting against social cleansing at the Sweets Way estate in North London.
Plenty of comedians do material about plane travel, but most of them focus on cavity searches at security. Few talk about their primal fear of flying. Susan Murray's show is about getting through the flight, not getting through the X Ray machine and it is throughly entertaining – and scarily informative – from take off to landing.
Simon Brodkin has already had a few comedy careers. He first broke through as sketch comedian, then as spoof geezer Lee Nelson, then made his name as a world class prankster. He is best known now for handing Theresa May her P45 at the Tory Party Conference and showering FIFA Sepp Blatter with bank notes. This show, however, is more of a "this is me" hour, as Brodkin reveals himself to be a thoroughly entertaining conventional comedian.
Poundland has launched a nationwide search for a joke writer to help create the gags featured on its products.
The move, timed to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is part of Poundland’s adoption of a refreshed tone of voice that resonates with customers.
Comedian, actor and former English teacher Greg Davies is to present a BBC four documentary entitled Kes: A Boy's Life. It will air on BBC Four on 19 November at 9pm.
Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines' classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as an escape from his troubled home and school life, which was famously made into the film Kes by Ken Loach.
There's a theory that the best stand-up comedy has to be relatable in some way. The centrepiece of John Robins' latest show Hot Shame is a story of how he dug a stress-based hole for himself when he had a spot of damp at home. The yarn involves researching reviews of humidifiers, hiring specialist plasterers and crumpling into a ball on the floor. Don't worry if you've not gone through this specific brand of trauma yourself though. It's absolutely gut-bustingly hilarious to hear Robins go through it on your behalf.
A lot of comedians talk about quitting stand-up. And a lot of comedians probably feel like quitting stand-up during the Edinburgh Fringe. But Stewart Francis announced that this would be his final run long before the Festival and after a UK tour in the autumn he is apparently giving up comedy pursue an acting career.
Once again MasterChef judges, John Torode and Gregg Wallace preside over the cooking contenders to whittle down the
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