Alan Partridge, it’s been 25 years since your last BBC presenting job.
Following news of a Bill Hicks tribute night on Monday February 25 there is a second tribute in London next week to mark 25 years since the legendary stand-up comedian died.
On Tuesday, February 26 the BFI on the South Bank will be screening Hicks' classic live show Revelations, which was filmed at the Dominion Theatre and caught the comic at his fulminating best.
The Leicester Comedy Festival’s Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Competition has been running 25 years (this year's final is on Feb 23) and has featured future stars including Johnny Vegas and Jason Manford. The latter looked terrifyingly young in a clip of archive footage at the start of an epic evening featuring previous acts. The gig featured so many winners and finalists it felt like it lasted a quarter of a century too. But in a Good Way.
With over a thousand shows at the Edinburgh Fringe last year I suppose it was inevitable that some brilliant performers might fly under the radar. Sean McLoughlin didn't get seen by many critics, but those that did see him raved about him. With good reason. McLoughlin is a natural, classic stand-up.
With filming underway for the fifth series of the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Inside No. 9, a host of talented actors are set to join Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton as they create six brand new stand-alone stories which promise to bring more exceptionally twisted tales to BBC Two.
Eight-time Bafta TV award-winner Graham Norton is no stranger to RuPaul’s Drag Race, having already appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars season two in the US as a guest judge in 2016.
Following Qiktionary, QI Ltd’s first foray into mobile gaming, this week sees the creators of BBC2’s QI release mobile phone game GetFact globally in the Apple iOS AppStore.
The first trailer has been released to promote the new comedy Warren, starring Martin Clunes and starting on BBC One on Monday 25th February at 9pm.
Legendary showbiz agent Norma Farnes has died.
Farnes was one of the last surviving links to the first golden age of broadcasting comedy in the UK. She worked for many years with Eric Sykes and most famously Spike Milligan.
It was Farnes who seemed most able to handle the unpredictable, depressive Milligan, whose behaviour included throwing a heavy paperweight at Sykes which missed him and flew out of the office window at Orme Court in West London.
Daniel Kitson has described the first night performance of his latest show Keep at Battersea Arts Centre in January as "pretty shonky".
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