John Robins, joint winner of the lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 and co-host of The Elis James and John Robins Show on Radio X, will tour the UK with a brand-new show, Hot Shame from September 2019. Beginning with a six-night run at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol from 2nd September 2019, concluding at Birmingham Town Hall on 30th November 2019 and with a night at London’s Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith on 25th October 2019, the tour will take in an initial total of 44 dates.
The finalists have been announced for the UK Pun Championships 2019, which will take place at the Leicester Comedy Festival on UK PunDay.
Voting is now open for this year's Comedy.co.uk Awards
This is the 13th year British Comedy Guide has run its annual awards. Television event
Shooting has started on the fifth series of Inside No. 9.
To mark the paperback publication of his book Erebus: The Story of A Ship, Monty Python star and much-loved television globe-trotter Michael Palin announces a brand new one-man stage show entitled Live on Stage 2019, Michael Palin, Erebus, Python and Other Stories. It will take him to 12 venues around the UK, beginning in Bournemouth on 7th June and ending in Bath on 7th July.
Eddie Izzard is to introduce his new film The Flip Side this Sunday, 27th January 2019 at 2pm at The Regent Street Cinema, London
The London Australian Film Society will celebrate Australia Day with the European premiere of new Australian feature film, introduced live on stage by the star, Eddie Izzard.
Pioneering sketch comedy Smack The Pony may be returning. In an interview in the Guardian Fiona Allen, who was one of the groundbreaking trio with Sally Phillips and Doon Mackichan said that they are “currently working on reunion projects”. Sally Phillips joked: “I think the time has perhaps come for an entirely period-based sketch show: The Big Red One. We used to joke about that. No, I’m still joking.”
National digital radio station Union JACK has signed up as one of the sponsors of the forthcoming Leicester Comedy Festival, with the sponsorship delivering live, on-air broadcasts from some of the festival’s greatest occasions.
Sitcom star Windsor Davies has died. He was 88.
Davies was best known as Battery Sergeant Major Williams in the hit sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which ran from 1974 to 1981. He also had a pop hit, Whispering Grass, with co-star Don Estelle, who played Lofty. The single reached number one in 1975.
Three episodes from classic British television comedies The Likely Lads and Till Death Us Do Part have been recovered and restored, and are due for release alongside re-mastered versions of their feature film spin-offs.
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