Comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke leads an all-star cast of improv comedy superstars in a brand new show There Will Be Cake, performed in South London’s Omnibus Theatre in Clapham for five nights this September.
Australian comedian Yianni Agisilaou’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Pockets Of Equality will be transferring to the small screen in a new TV stand-up special.
The hour-long show for Australian TV network ABC as part of their Next Generation Comedy season will be filmed in London on Saturday 9th September at the Albany Theatre in Deptford.
Comedian Richard Herring has released the first episode of his online sketch show As It Occurs To Me, which was funded by Kickstarter last year.
The crowdfunding campaign raised around £100,000. Each of the six episodes is going to cost around £15,000 to make.
American comedy superstar Louis CK played a low-key club gig in London on Sunday night.
He popped into the Angel Comedy club/pub in Islington and reports say that after chatting to some of the acts on the bill did a 15-minute set at the end of the night. Needless to say he was phenomenal, according to a witness.
Allen Wright Award
Winner, Features: Arusa Qureshi
Runner Up, Features: Gillian Furmage
Winner, Reviews: Kate Wyver
Runner Up, Reviews: Arusa Qureshi
After 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues across Edinburgh, the curtain falls on the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The 2017 Fringe included performances in a swimming pool, a boat, a bathroom, a football ground, a tunnel and a racecourse, and featured shows that addressed themes of belonging, identity, grief, Brexit, Trump, fake news, the Syrian conflict, gender and activism.
The Edinburgh Fringe's four main venues – Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly – have announced record-breaking ticket sales across the festival, with 1,520,435 tickets sold, an increase of 15% on Fringe 2016.
Accounting for 56% of all tickets sold at the Fringe, Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly collectively run 83 venues, present 798 shows and employ more than 1600 staff, making them the largest grouping of venues on the Fringe.
The BBC has reported that Russell Brand married his partner Laura Gallacher in Henley-on-Thames on Saturday.
The comedian said on his Radio X podcast: "I'm living a married life now...I'm domestic."
David Baddiel, Jonathan Ross and Noel Gallagher were among the guests.
More here.
Following the success of last year's Straight Outta Middlesex tour, the prolific Nathan Caton is back. He's keeping it real and keeping it funny, dissecting all things from the personal to the political in his brand new show The Pursuit Of Happiness.
Kai Humphries might not be a household name, but if you live in his hometown of Blyth in the north-east, where his family runs the Punch-Drunk comedy club, he sounds like something of a legend. His show is a truly-heart-warming tale of as community pulling together thanks to comedy. And thanks to two brothers thumping the shit out of each other in the boxing ring.
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