Bridget Christie will be the next curator of BBC Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity, joining John Lloyd as co-host for the new series.
Although not billed as such in the Brighton Fringe brochure, Cally Beaton's show Invisible is a work in progress here. It's a bit of a surprise, and one that is fortunately expressly explained at the top of the show. Beaton is a skilled storyteller and establishes a jovial and candid connection with her audience from the start, extracting laughs nicely as she begins by introducing herself as a 50-year-old single parent single lady.
Red Imp Comedy Club has teamed up with Soho private members club The Union for a new West End monthly comedy club.
Comedians Mary Bourke, Ian Stone and Susan Murray will launch the opening night of the Union Sessions: Red Imp Comedy Club on Thursday 23rd May 2019. Tickets are available to non-members for £15 + booking fees
Following recent tragic events in Sri Lanka, the cream of comedy talent will be joining forces in London next week at Indigo2 on Sunday, May 12, to support the victims and their families.
Hosted by Romesh Ranganathan and Nihal Arthanayake, Indigo at The O2 will see Harry Hill, Jo Brand, Rob Beckett, Katherine Ryan and Kerry Godliman take to the stage to do what they do best – make people laugh – to support the relief effort.
The winners have been announced at the 99 Club Female & Non-Binary Comedians’ Bursary Showcase 2019.
The winners are Janine Harouni and Helen Bauer. They both receive a bursary of £500 each to go towards the costs of taking their debut show to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.
Comedian, actor and writer Jack Whitehall has confirmed dates for four Work In Progress performances; Sunday 12th May 2019 at the New Wimbledon Theatre, Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May 2019 at the Shepherds Bush Empire and Wednesday 15th May 2019 at Watford Colosseum. Tickets for the Shepherds Bush Empire dates go on presale on Wednesday 1st May 2019 at 10am
Comedy Award Winner Rose Matafeo has announced two one-off performances of the critically applauded, Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show Horndog at the Leicester Square Theatre on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th July, following two sold out runs of the Best Show of 2018 at Soho Theatre.
Stewart Lee is to appear at the Sea Change Festival in Devon. Doing four different things. That's right. Four different appearances by Stewart Lee at the event, which takes place from 24-26 May.
Comedy Central UK is to launch a new series of stand-up shows filmed at Dingwalls in North London.
The 20-minute sets will start on May 15 with Iain Stirling (pictured) of Love Island narration fame talking about growing old and his previous work as a children’s TV presenter.
Also lined up for the series are Stephen Bailey, Darren Harriott, Sofie Hagen, Luisa Omielan, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Tez Ilyas, Fin Taylor and Desiree Burch.
Every weekday afternoon for six weeks three Head Hunters will emerge from a ‘talent pool’ of twenty quizzers, following quick qualifying questions.
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