At the very start of Suzi Ruffell’s set she knocked the microphone out of its stand. This was the only slip-up in an hour of excellent comedy that should win her plenty of plaudits this August.
You’ve got to have a USP in Edinburgh and Ruffell’s unique selling point is that she is a working class lesbian, not one of “your Toksvigs, yours Baldings, your Perkins.” She is not exactly like a real-life member of East Enders though. She has gone up in the world and Keeping It Classy is all about bridging that divide.
London comedian Ian Stone has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money to publish a memoir about his music-fixated childhood. To Be Someone is about growing up in North London and being obsessed with The Jam (for younger readers he means Paull Weller's band, not the fruit-based sandwich spread). Stone has to pay for the initial launch through publisher Unbound, which is where this appeal comes in.
It is often said that the best comedians make you see the world in a fresh way. Well, Jenny Bede has certainly done that with her answer to my first question. Bede is the first comedian to point out that it doesn't actually make any sense. I may have to reconsider every life decision I have ever made. But before then I'll go and see her new show, Eggtime. Bede is best known for her viral videos, which have attracted millions and millions of YouTube hits.
The guests have been announced for the third series of John Bishop: In Conversation With… on the W Channel.
The line-up will include Hollywood icon Dame Joan Collins, Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain, comedy legend John Cleese, model and entrepreneur Katie Price and Jimmy Carr.
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.
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