The Irish Comedian of the Year Final has taken place today.
The winner is Lisa Casey (pictured centre). Second place went to Danny Ryan (left) and Catherine Bohart (right) was third.
The Grand Final took place at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival in Galway.
Lisa Casey wins a cash prize and a trip to perform in Australia.
This review first appeared in the London Evening Standard here.
Ahir Shah is currently on tour. Dates here.
Sir Lenny Henry is to make a documentary for the BBC entitled Lenny Henry: The Commonwealth Kid.
Dudley born, but Jamaica bred, Henry considers himself a Commonwealth Kid, born to Jamaican parents who came to the UK as part of the post-Windrush generation in 1957.
Were you asking when Detectorists is back on?
Well, you've come to the right place.
Beyond The Joke can reveal that the new series will start on BBC4 on Wednesday, November 8 at 10pm.
Writer and star MacKenzie Crook has said that this third six-part series will probably be the last one he makes. The series follows the lives and loves of people who hunt for buried treasure around the village of Danebury.
The UK’s most fantabulous DJ and one half of everyone’s favourite fab radio duo, Mike Smash (Paul Whitehouse) takes time out from his charity work and returns to TV screens this Christmas with his ding-dong-merrily-on-high-iest festive favourite tunes. Smashie's Xmastastic Playlist is a new UKTV Original that will air across two days in December 2017.
Comedian Susan Calman will be battling for survival when the latest Strictly Come Dancing votes are counted tonight.
Calman and partner Kevin Clifton came joint last in a four-way tie alongside celebrity dancers Simon Rimmer, Brian Conley and Ruth Langsford.
The judges had mixed feelings about Calman and Clifton's dance to Shout Out to My Ex by Little Mix
RTS Futures has teamed up with the creators of Avalon’s hit UKTV comedy game show, Taskmaster, to offer the ultimate masterclass in bringing ideas to TV.
After more than a decade entertaining crowds in Kilburn Good Ship Comedy is setting sail and moving a few miles east to The Colonel Fawcett in Camden Town. Over the past two years comics to have played there include Romesh Ranganathan, Sara Pascoe, Jack Whitehall, Nish Kumar, Pippa Evans, Ed Gamble, Joel Dommett, Ellie Taylor, Shappi Khorsandi, Bec Hill, Abandoman, Dane Baptiste, Mae Martin, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Richard Herring.
Tim Vine is taking his latest show on the road.
Vine's Sunset Milk Idiot tour starts in Aldershot on February 6 and currently finishes at Blackpool Grand on June 7. As previously reported, he plays the Eventim Apollo in London on on May 11.
Caroline Moran, who co-created the semi-autobiographical series Raised by Wolves alongside her sister Caitlin Moran, will be among the speakers at the Women And Comedy Symposium, held next week at the University’s New Adelphi Building ahead of the launch of Manchester’s Women In Comedy Festival.
The series, which was named best sitcom at the prestigious Rose d’Or Awards, tells the tale of the sisters’ upbringing in Wolverhampton.
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