Hot on the heels of her acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a Soho Theatre run that completely sold out before it had begun, Lou Sanders embarks on her debut nationwide tour of the comedy hit, and most confessional solo hour yet, Shame Pig from 16th February – 4th June including a second run at Soho Theatre from 25th – 28th February. Tickets can be found at lousanders.co.uk.
Following sell-out houses for outings in 2017 and 2018, triple-headline tour Lefty Scum – Josie Long, Jonny & The Baptists & Grace Petrie – has announced new dates for 2019.
Political comedian Matt Forde has added four additional London performances of his critically acclaimed and continually evolving stand-up show, Brexit Through The Gift Shop. Following two performances at The Southbank Centre which kick started his 25 date nationwide tour in December 2018, Forde returns to this venue on the 7th and 12th March and will play The Other Palace on the 28th January and the 19th March.
US stand-up comedian and host of weekly Kill Tony podcast (with over one million downloads per month), Tony Hinchcliffe is set to make his UK and Ireland debuts with special recordings of Kill Tony in Dublin on 14th February, Salford on 15th February and London on 16th February, followed by brand new show Tony Hinchcliffe at Soho Theatre from 18th to 23rd February.
Writers Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie have previous when it comes to protraying the lifestyles of the rich and brainless. They wrote The Windsors for C4 and now turn their satirical and absurdist attention to some slightly lesser celebrities for this BBC pilot set on Richard Branson's sunny, swanky Necker Island with Harry Enfield playing Sir Dickie B in some scarily tight budgie smugglers and looking like a lost Bee Gee.
Comedian Billy Connolly talks about getting old and being ill in the second part of his BBC series Made In Scotland.
He says: “My Parkinson’s is not going to go away and it’s going to get worse, my life is slipping away....There is no denying it, I am 75, I have got Parkinson’s and I am at the wrong end of the telescope of life. I am at the point where the yesteryears mean more than the yesterdays.
UK-based Canadian Mae Martin is certainly getting good mileage out of her 2017 Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated show Dope. Bits of it have cropped up on BBC radio and now a shortened version of the full set gets an airing. While UK fans might be familiar with her story of addiction and recovery, this episode acts should act as a welcome introduction to a very talented comic for international viewers.
The final of the Get-Up, Stand-Up competition took place last night at the Comedy Pub in London, SW1.
After ten heats and three semi-finals eleven acts fought it out to be the funniest of the evening and win the £500 cash prize, plus £500 worth of paid gigs at the Stand-Up Club pro-weekend nights.
Update: Radio 4 is airing an interview with June Whitfield and Joanna Lumley at 1.30pm today (Sunday)
Comedy legend Dame June Whitfield has died. She was 93.
Whitfield was a stalwart of British comedy from the post-war years to the present day. She first found fame on radio and later went on to find television fame in the sitcom Terry and June before finding a whole new audience as the mum in Absolutely Fabulous.
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