Following on from two consecutive Edinburgh Comedy Award nominations for Best Show for his thrilling and genre-defining shows Lance and Maestro, Kieran Hodgson returned to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018 to claim his third nomination. He is now taking his latest hit show on tour
Comedian Jason Manford has added another run of dates to his current Muddle Class tour due to demand.
The new shows include a prestigious gig at the London Palladium on March 8, 2019.
The other new dates are in Cambeidge, Leeds, Middlesbrough and Liverpool.
Muddle Class is Jason's latest tour and it features new material about Jason growing up "working class" then finding, over the years, that part of him has become "middle class" - causing much confusion.
It has been confirmed that Sir Lenny Henry is to play legendary stand-up comedian Richard Pryor onstage.
The performance will be at the National Theatre's Dorfman Theatre, but comedy fans will have to wait until 2020 to see it. Tickets are not on sale yet, but it was announced at the NT's latest annual press conference. It will be called Richard Pryor on Fire and will be directed by Paulette Randall.
Update 17/7: 20 more dates added from October. Tickets on sale now at link below.
Al Murray, The Pub Landlord, will embark on 43-date tour of the UK from May 2019. The Landlord Of Hope and Glory Tour currently starts at the Chelmsford Civic Theatre on May 8 and finishes at the Shanklin Theatre on the Isle of Wight on July 6.
Lost episodes of classic sitcom Dad's Army are to be remade. UKTV has commissioned Mercury Productions, working very closely with the Estates of the original writers, Jimmy Perry and David Croft, to exclusively recreate three episodes of Dad’s Army that haven’t been seen on television since they were first broadcast in 1969.
The team behind No Such Thing As A Fish are hitting the road again in Spring 2019, with their brand new show, ‘In No Particular Order’. Dan, James, Anna and Andy will be taking their fact-filled tomfoolery to all corners of the British Isles, performing their most northerly, southerly, easterly and westerly UK & Ireland shows to date. Their new UK tour will start on 28th February 2019.
Most comedians of the same generation are pretty supportive of their colleagues but there was a thread on Facebook a while ago in which a few comics expressed concern about the success of Comedy Central UK’s high-rating show Roast Battle UK. There was a feeling that insults hurled in the name of entertainment could be recycled in the playground in a much more hurtful way.
The 2017 and 2018 BAFTA nominated entertainment series, The Last Leg returns to Channel 4 this autumn for a15th series. The ten episode series sees Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker reunite with their honest, upbeat and award-winning brand of satirical comedy.
Award winning stand-up and TV star Nick Helm will be performing not one but two live shows this autumn/winter.
Nick’s two shows are a tenth-anniversary resurrection of a horror musical and the fourth instalment of his festive bonanza.
Back in 2008 Helm wrote his last play for the Edinburgh Festival, the Musical B-Movie, Drive-In Anthology Horror Tribute ‘I Think, You Stink!’. It was the only show that Nick wrote between 2001 and 2008 that made any money in Edinburgh. It made £50.
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