Launching at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Funny Women’s The Glitter Project will host friendly events with comedy mentors to advise new female performers.
ITVX is to broadcast four Edinburgh Fringe shows live. The shows, in conjunction with comedy streamer Nextup, will be on August 21 - 24 and wil take place in the Grand Hall at The Space @ Surgeons Hall. The host will be Judi Love.
Australian oddball Josh Glanc’s critically acclaimed show Vrooom Vrooom is available to stream now via 800lb Gorilla. Vrooom Vrooom fuses together music, character, and stand-up with Josh’s trademark ‘antic brand of tomfoolery’ (★★★★ The Guardian). Vrooom Vrooom brings cartoonish sketches, skilful clowning, and creative song writing together to draw the audience in with true commitment to silliness.
Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up show at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne this weekend was disrupted by a pro-Palestinian protest in the audience.
This is not the first time the 70-year-old comedian has had to deal with interruptions. There was also a heckler who interrupted his comedy show in Australia with pro-Palestinian chants on June 16 at the Qudos Bank Arena.
Ghosts star Kiell Smith-Bynoe has talked candidly about working on hit sitcom Ghosts and pivoting towards co-presenting The Great British Sewing Bee in an interview with Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett for their podcast Dish.
Read some exclusive snippets from their interview below and listen to the podcast here.
Dabbers Social Bingo, London’s best-loved alternative bingo hall, has been on the hunt for its 2024 new face with its annual contest ‘Comedy Caller 2024’. After a perilous journey through a bingo-based-battle, four fearless contestants won the heart of their audiences and jury alike.
Steve Coogan will be joined by Olivier Award-winning Giles Terera in the World Premiere stage production of Stanley Kubrick’s timeless classic Dr. Strangelove, which begins performances at the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End on Tuesday 8 October 2024.
The Last Leg is to return to Channel 4 for a special General Election show. It will air live on Friday, July 5, at 10pm, after the results are in and will be two hours long.
Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker will take stock of the previous tumultuous events. They will be joined in the studio by a host of comedians, celebrity guests and politicians - names to be confirmed...
In 2023, comedian and broadcaster Jon Holmes was diagnosed with prostate cancer – which came as a bit of a surprise because he was far too busy for all of that nonsense. After a very odd, intense, unexpected, ridiculous year, Jon realised that men don’t tend to talk openly about the cancer. So he decided he would, with other men who have been through it.
Tuesday’s Child Scotland and Interstellar have secured funding to co-produce a brand-new comedy entertainment pilot, James Acaster: People Person (w/t), for Channel 4.
The pilot was co-developed by Interstellar with Tuesday’s Child in Glasgow, and will be produced, filmed, and edited in Glasgow this summer. The commission was secured as part of an entertainment production initiative from Channel 4 and Screen Scotland who will co-fund the pilot .
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