Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby has picked up another award for her widely acclaimed latest show Nanette.
Gadsby won the Best Comedy Performer prize at the 17th Helpmann Awards in Sydney on Monday night. She has already won the Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The other nominated acts were Joel Creasey, Nazeem Hussain, Tom Ballard, Aunty Donna and Sammy J.
Science comedy phenomenon Festival of the Spoken Nerd have announced a new tour for Autumn 2017 entitled You Can’t Polish A Nerd. The tour starts on September 20 at Parabola Arts, as part of the Cheltenham Comedy Festival and currently finishes with a major London date on November 27 at the Duchess Theatre in London.
There is a thesis waiting to be written about the crossover between stand-up and rap. Among others there is Doc Brown, Abandoman to name two and then there is Baba Brinkman. The Canadian rapper delivers comical – and educational – raps at absolutely lightning speed without missing a beat. Following his Rap Guide to Evolution and Rap Guide to Religion he returns to the UK with his Rap Guide To Consciousness (and also a show about neuroscience).
Principal photography has started on comedy drama Country Music, starring Jessie Buckley (Taboo, War & Peace) and BAFTA Award winner Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, upcoming Paddington 2).
Oscar® nominee Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), who has just come off the West End production of Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia, and James Harkness (Rogue One, Macbeth) have also joined the cast.
Rory Cowan, who plays gay son Rory Brown in Mrs Brown's Boys, has left the top-rating show.
According to an interview in the Irish Mail Cowan handed in his notice in the middle of June but he agreed with star Brendan O'Carroll that he would stay on until the end of the run of live shows at the 02 Arena, which concluded on Sunday night.Cowan was best known for corpsing or looking shocked whenever by Agnes Brown looked him in the eye and made a rude remark or went off-script.
Emma Sidi's short, titled Last Resort, is set in Corfu where twentysomethings Alex (Sidi) and Becca (Kath Hughes) have gone to relive their hedonistic party animal youth. They've got the booze, they've got the old "Hoe Bags" T-shirts, what could possibly go wrong? Well, happily settled Becca just wants to chill by the pool for starters, while Alex wants to rave all night to get over a recent split.
Comedian Ahir Shah's short is set in the suburbs where a family is celebrating Indian Independence Day with a big meal. Except that Viraj (Shah) has to break some news to his grandmother. He and Poppy (Freya Parker) are planning to move to India.
Can grandmother cope with the news? After all, her generation did everything they could to move from India to the UK? How can her disloyal grandson do this to her?
The English countryside is a rich source of comedy. Just look at the recent success of BBC3's This Country or Julia Davis' Camping. And this short by comedy regulars Pepperdine and White mines a similar vein of unspoken weirdness always just under the surface.
David Earl and Joe Wilkinson appear to have missed the memo that said that these comedy shorts were supposed to have a summer theme. Luckily they remembered the bit about them being comedies.
Their short film is set in a one horse cowboy town where misfits Brian (Earl) and Gulch (Dan Skinner) are competing for the affections of classy prostitute Madame Haystacks played by, yes, Joe Wilkinson revealing hidden depths as the tart with a heart (and a beard).
Andrew Flintoff is already a star on Sky thanks to his antics on A League Of Their Own and now he plays a romantic lead – no pun intended – in Pacino & Bert, this short film about a dreamy dog walker written by Daniel Maier.
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