Stephen Tompkinson (DCI Banks, Drop The Dead Donkey) will play Eddie, as he sets about reshaping the iconic double act into the Eric and Ernie that the nation took to its heart.
Jeff Garlin, who plays Larry David's manager Jeff Greene in Curb Your Enthusiasm, is to play London shows.
He will be appearing at the Soho Theatre from Monday December 18 - Saturday December 30.
Simon Brodkin has pulled off one of his most daring stunts yet.
He managed to get past tight security to hand Prime Minister Theresa May a P45 when she was making her speech at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.
As he was being bundled out he was asked why he did it and replied: "Boris asked me to do it."
At a time when I regularly hear about comedy clubs struggling to survive it was good this week to hear about two new clubs opening. There’s a big new swanky joint in Glasgow and down south in London Pizza Express Live, just round the corner from Holborn station, is putting on stand-up on Monday nights and is a very welcome – and comfy – addition to the live circuit.
- What is the last thing you do before you go onstage (apart from check your flies and/or check your knickers aren't sticking out of your skirt and check for spinach between your teeth)?
Pace up and down and remind myself that I am incredibly lucky to do this for a living and that I am living a dream and I should ignore the abject terror that is overtaking my body
2. What irritates you?
Adam Hills is to release a DVD of his most recent full-length stand-up show Clown Heart.
In his latest show the Last Leg star tackles everything from health, diets and exercise to parenting, relationships and mortality, with some very special guests joining him along the way. Adam embraces life with his inimitable positivity, laughing in the face of disaster.
Character comedian Gemma Whelan, who is best known these days as Yara Greyjoy from Game of Thrones, is to appear as a detective in a new C4 comedy entitled The End of the F***ing World.
The series will launch as a complete box set exclusively on All 4 later this month, with the first episode premiering on Channel 4.
Sarah Hadland and Lolly Adefope are two of the names who have joined the cast of Hang Ups, the new C4 comedy starring Stephen Mangan as fallen-from-grace-therapist Richard Pitt.
Porridge is back with a new series, commissioned off the back of the last year’s sitcom season special, and sees Kevin Bishop return as Nigel ‘Fletch’ Fletcher.
He plays the grandson of Ronnie Barker’s iconic character Norman Stanley Fletcher banged up in Wakeley prison for a series of cybercrimes who spends his days trying to escape the attentions of authoritarian Officer Meekie (Mark Bonnar) and the much softer Officer Braithwaite (Dominic Coleman).
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