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.
Daniel Sloss is the only UK comic to make the Best Comedy Specials list compiled by US website The Interrobang. Fans can now vote for their favourite out of this year's list.
Sloss is nominated for his two hard-hitting comedy specials released last autumn, Dark and Jigsaw.
I don't know what it says about the times we are living in but comedy seems to have slipped into all sorts of programmes this year. Was Black Mirror a comedy? Killing Eve? Patrick Melrose? A Very English Scandal? All of these great shows could have figured in a broader list but I've kept my choices to more traditional comedies. Using the word traditional in the broadest of senses too. And as for stand-up specials, a listicle devoted to them will follow...
Let's be honest, you watched the live edition of Not Going Out hoping that the scenery would fall on Lee Mack didn't you? Or at least that something memorable would go wrong. In fact it nearly all went absolutely right. The only fluffed line seemed to be from Lucy (Sally Bretton) at the start – assuming it was an accident – and even then Lee Mack showed how quick his wits are by making a rapid response joke about it.
The International Emmy Awards nominated Urban Myths has been greenlit for a third series on Sky Arts. The next episode of the anthology series to be announced sees students from the National Film and Television School (NFTS) taking over the creative reigns. The series three instalment, Bleak House Guest, stars Stephen Mangan as Charles Dickens and will air in spring 2019.
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