There have been some interesting comments about new comedy White Gold, which started earlier this week. People who didn’t like it pointed to the fact that there was nobody nice in it. Nobody you could actually like. Which is not how English sitcoms are supposed to be. They are supposed to be full of loveable losers.
Jason Manford did not know whether to be annoyed or flattered when it was pointed out to him that somebody on Tinder was using his likeness as their profile picture.
Fan Kate Stephenson sent a screengrab to Manford saying: "can't believe someone's using your photos on tinder!! Says in 10km from me and I'm in Sunderland, SR2. Will 37 lover of Jaffa cakes apparently." The user also described himself as "Property Tycoon" and "Gentleman...most of the time."
David Baddiel will take over the Channel 4 continuity mic this Friday, May 19, to help raise awareness and support for Dementia Awareness Week.
The comedian has openly discussed the experience of dealing with and caring for his father, Colin, who has Pick’s Disease, an aggressive and incurable form of dementia that has stripped him of his inhibitions.
Fight in the Dog, the production company co-founded by acclaimed writer and comic Liam Williams, will take its first stable of performers to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, producing shows encompassing a wide range of comedy genres, theatre and variety.
The line-up includes Tom Ballard, Giants, Jon Pointing and Phoebe Walsh, formerly of sketch group Oyster Eyes. See below for details of Edinurgh shows and London previews.
To paraphrase an old showbiz saying, you host Your Face Or Mine twice. Once on the way up, once on the way down. Yet you could hardly say that Jimmy Carr, who co-hosted the original E4 version fifteen years ago is on the way down. If anything he is riding higher than ever with regular TV slots and a sell-out tour. And his new co-host is certainly on the way up. Katherine Ryan is pretty much the go-to name when TV people want a sassy, smart-talking female face. So much for old showbiz sayings then.
It's been a while since the last Count Arthur Strong series but the third run does not mark a significant change. Which is a Good Thing. Our befuddled hero (Steve Delaney) is still as hapless as ever, putting his foot in it at every opportunity and making life hard for long-suffering Michael (Rory Kinnear). The script, by Delaney and Graham Linehan (who also directs) is neatly plotted and regularly punctuated with laugh-out-loud humour. If you like your gags silly you have come to the right place.
The end of the first series of Aziz Ansari’s Master Of None saw excitable lover of life Dev (Ansari) flying to Italy to learn how to make pasta. We catch up with him in the first episode of the second series and, sure enough, that's just what he is doing in beautiful Modena.
Actor Geoffrey Bayldon has died. He was 93.
A statement from the Catweazle fan club said: 'At the age of 93 and after battling respiratory problems of late, he passed away on the morning of May 10th."
He will be best remembered as timetravelling magic man Catweazle and Crowman in Worzel Gummidge. He also reportedly turned down the role of Dr Who twice, although he did appear in the sci-fi series at Organon the astrologer.
The line-up has been announced for this year's Old Comedian of the Year final.
Following heats at the Museum of Comedy, the twelve finalists will compete for the crown at the Leicester Square Theatre on May 29.
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