Acclaimed game show Taskmaster will return to Dave from Wednesday 4th September at 9pm for a ninth series once again fronted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne. This season’s hopefuls are David Baddiel, Ed Gamble, Jo Brand, Katy Wix and Rose Matafeo. Read an interview with Ed Gamble below.
The ninth year of the Mackenzie Taylor Memorial Cup has taken place in Edinburgh at Duddingston Golf Course, situated in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat .
Mackenzie Taylor was a comedian, golfer and Edinburgh Fringe regular who tragically took his own life in 2010. He played in the annual Comedians v Industry golf match and following his death the tournament is played in his memory
Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Home, the asylum seeker comedy written by and starring Rufus Jones.
A judging panel of comedians appearing at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, including Fern Brady, Mark Nelson, Janey Godley and Ray Bradshaw has revealed @marcsimps0n as the winner of Scotland’s funniest tweet. Picked from a shortlist of Tweets that were carefully curated by the Twitter team, @marcsimps0n will receive his own wall of honour within the #ScottishTwitter Visitor Centre and a gold trophy in the form of the iconic Twitter bird. And #ScottishTwitter’s funniest tweet is…
Acclaimed game show Taskmaster will return to Dave from Wednesday 4th September at 9pm for a ninth series once again fronted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne. This season’s hopefuls are David Baddiel, Ed Gamble, Jo Brand, Katy Wix and Rose Matafeo. Read an interview with David Baddiel below.
The comedy industry is hardly notorious for being good for your mental health. The uncertainty of spending lots of time away from home, performing for not enough money in the hope of gaining the approval of strangers, all in the slightly more vague hope that it will progress your career somehow, is perhaps not what most people envisage as a dream job.
Davies plays a neat trick on his liberal arts festival audience.
He is some kind of ethnic – but he won’t tell use what kind. So we know he’s Asian –but he variously claims to be Korean, Malaysian, Japanese and Taiwanese.
The audience is desperate for an origin story – but Davies keeps it tantalisingly out of reach – until the end – when he reveals something that is comically unlikely.
The winner of the BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award Final has been revealed in the BBC Tent and at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mark Watson (pictured) compered the final which featured Janine Harouni, Hannah Platt, Josh Jones, Donald Alexander and Mo Omar.
Previous finalists include Lee Mack and Peter Kay. Last year's winner was Glaswegian stand-up Stephen Buchanan.
And the winner this year, following in the footsteps of previous winners Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr, is Janine Harouni.
There were five acts in this year's final, which made it a tight, fast-paced show: "I sound like this because I'm from New York," said first finalist Janine Harouni, who has already been receiving rave reviews for her solo full-length debut on the Edinburgh Fringe. Her short but sweet set here cherry picked some of her best gags, as she compared her parents to the Sopranos but without the crime or the excitement.
Wearing a red satin smoking jacket and waving a long scarlet feather Troy Hawke sashays onto the stage and fixes his audience with a steely gaze.
This misguided aristocrat, the creation of comic Milo McCabe, has important information to discharge to his audience.
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