Looking for a last minute gift that won't take up too much room under the Christmas tree? 2019 looks like a bumper year for comedy tours. The biggest one should have been Peter Kay's tour, but that was cancelled. Instead we have the following – in no particular order – to look forward to.
The Sky original production Sick of It is set to return to our screens as a second series of the scripted comedy gets greenlit. The scripted series, written by Karl Pilkington and Richard Yee, his long-time producer and director, will air late 2019 on Sky One and NOW TV.
Comedian Mark Nelson had a narrow escape last night when his car caught fire while he was at the wheel.
Fortunately Nelson was on his own in the car at the time, so nobody was harmed, but he was understandably shaken up.
But as well as the damage to the car the boot was full of Christmas presents and his suit, all of which are now ruined.
The performers have been announced for 2019's prestigious comedy competitions and events at Leicester Comedy Festival. The comedians will perform in competitions including Silver Stand Up, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Competition, UK Pun Championships and the Circuit Breakers showcase. All the shows will be part of Leicester Comedy Festival which takes place from 6-24 February 2019. Full details about the festival can be obtained by visiting
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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