News: Palladium Gigs For Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe has announced the finale of her critically acclaimed LadsLadsLads tour with two shows at the London Palladium. Sara will bring her smash hit show to the iconic venue on 10th March 2019 following a sell-out UK tour and West End run. Tickets for the shows – which will be filmed for release at a later date – are on sale now at link below. 

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News: New Comedy for David Schwimmer And Nick Mohammed

Intelligence is a new Sky original production set in the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, a weedier, geekier, more bureaucratic version of MI5 and MI6.

The six-part series is a workplace comedy series based in Cheltenham and set in the UK’s highly regarded Government Communications Headquarters. When a power-hungry, maverick NSA agent (Schwimmer) comes over to join an inept and tactless computer analyst (Mohammed) and a newly-formed team tackling cybercrime, everything they know is shaken up. 

News: New Recipients Of BBC Comedy Writer’s Bursary Announced

BBC Studios is celebrating 40 years of The Radio Comedy Writer’s Bursary, which gives two new writers each year the chance to secure a contract to write for a year across a variety of audio comedy shows.

Over the years the bursary has helped launch the careers of writers such as Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey), Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (Red Dwarf) and Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche (The Thick of It and Veep).

News: New Hosts for BBC's Newsjack And Comedy Club

Award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard McLean will host the new series of Radio 4 Extra’s satirical sketch show Newsjack, which begins on 7 February 2019.

News: First Images Of Ken Branagh In Christmas Upstart Crow

The first images have been released of Sir Kenneth Branagh in this year’s Upstart Crow Christmas Special. Kenneth appears as the mysterious stranger in A Crow Christmas Carol

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News: Third West End Run for James Acaster

Following a sell-out debut run at London’s Vaudeville Theatre in October of his critically acclaimed brand-new show ‘Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999’, and a second sold-out upcoming week run at London’s Phoenix Theatre (14th - 19th Jan 2019), James Acaster has announced a THIRD West End run of the show, returning to the Vaudeville Theatre for six performances from 25th February – 2nd March 2019.Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 14th December 2018

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TV Review: Vic & Bob's Big Night Out, BBC4, Episode 2

It’s great that this new Vic and Bob series has had such fantastic reviews. Almost everyone has celebrated the fact that they are clearly having bags of fun revisiting some of their old classic characters and catchphrases.

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News: Shooting Wraps On Greed Starring Steve Coogan

Sony Pictures International Productions (SPIP) and Film4 have wrapped production on BAFTA-winning director Michael Winterbottom’s Greed. The film stars Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner Steve Coogan (upcoming Stan & Ollie, Alan Partridge, Philomena), alongside Isla Fisher, BAFTA-winner David Mitchell with Sophie Cookson , Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry, Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Ollie Locke and Stephen Fry. The satire is co-written by Winterbottom and two-time Emmy Awa

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News: Vault Festival Announces Its Comedy Line Up

The Vault Festival has launched its programme for 2019 and it once again includes a self-contained Comedy Festival. This year's line-up includes works-in-progress from household favourites like James Acaster, Phil Wang and Desiree Burch and debut hours from up and coming acts such as Helen Bauer, Chloe Petts and Kayla Macquarie.

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Interview: Rarely Asked Questions – Colin Mochrie

The recent live revival of Whose Line Is It Anyway? has been a welcome surprise. The classic improvisation show still gets plenty of airings on television but who would have thought it would have been such a hit onstage that after two West End runs it is now coming to the Royal Albert Hall in the run-up to Christmas.

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