Curated and directed by Mark Gatiss, Queers sees eight new and established writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men.
The Irish police have decided not to proceed with a blasphemy investigation following controversial comments about by Stephen Fry on a television show, reported here.
Seann Walsh and Mark Thomas have joined the theatre line-up of the Latitude Festival.
Compared to the way some new comedy programmes are endlessly trailed Britain Today Tonight seems to have flown in under the radar. It sounds like an interesting concept though. A homegrown spoof American news show reporting on contemporary life in the UK fronted by man of a thousand prosthetic faces, Kayvan Novak.
Every autumn I judge a competition for UK Gold to find new jokes for Christmas crackers. Tom Binns should enter - the humour in his multi-character-based vehicle Hospital People is just the right mix of corn and cheese for my yuletide challenge.
An odd couple travelling together in a car who love each but can’t say it? A four-part series on the BBC ending this week? We are not talking about Car Share but Bucket, starring Miriam Margolyes as eccentric mum Mim and Frog Stone (who also wrote this) as long-suffering daughter Fran.
Mrs Brown's Boys creator Brendan O'Carroll said "The whole family are thrilled with the reception the show has received on Saturday nights. Although our focus right now is on the Christmas Specials of our regular Mrs Brown's Boys show, we are excited that 2018 will see party time at the Brown's house again."
In an echo of recent events at the Fyre Festival comedian/actor Seth Rogen has revealed that he is working on a film about a festival that goes wrong,
Never mind the new competitors this time round, what about the new face-fuzz on Greg Davies? The towering presenter is either nurturing designer stubble, belatedly growing a hipster beard or has just been too busy to shave for the first episode of the new series of Taskmaster. But actually that’s the only real change for this fourth run of the game show which truly brings out the competitive side of comedians.
Improvising hip hop combo Abandoman has been forced to cancel a run of gigs in New Zealand after front man Rob Broderick injured himself during a show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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