At one point during Ross Noble’s gig he pointed out something important: “I am contractually obliged to follow an idea as far as it will go.” Suddenly everything made sense. Noble’s brain is simply hardwired to channel maximum lunacy.
Peter Kay is to make two special appearances this December at Blackpool Opera House in aid of the Polly Haydock Appeal, a Cancer Treatment Fund for mum of three Polly Haydock from Westhoughton, Bolton.
Pete Firman has been entertaining audiences for over a decade now with his excellently chirpy brand of comedy magic. I can remember him on Five’s Monkey Magic yonks ago and since then the Middlesbrough magician has become a fixture on the Fringe and TV, almost as famous for his cheesy patter as he is for his brilliant tricks. Basically he makes things appear and disappear before your very eyes in amazing, mindblowing ways and he does it with such friendly aplomb that everyone loves him.
Filmed on location and in front of a live studio audience, David will be joined each week by a famous face playing a number of characters. Pictured is Jack Whitehall as a Benedict Cumberbatch-style Sherlock Holmes.
The friends are:
Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein, the pranksters behind The Revolution Will Be Televised, are coming to BBC2 with a new series in the new year.
In Revolting Prowse and Rubinstein target hypocrisy, the corrupt, the scandalous and the absurdity of modernity in a mix of sketches and stunts.
The BBC is to broadcast rarely heard recordings from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
The biblical spoof The Dead Sea Tapes was recorded in 1963, but not released at the time. According to reports it was pulled over fears it would flout blasphemy laws
The clips will be played in a documentary about Cook made by Victor Lewis-Smith to be aired on BBC4 later this month. Peter Cook’s widow Lin has allowed Lewis-Smith unprecedented access to his private recordings, diaries, letters, photographs and much more.
Comedian Joel Dommett has joined the line-up for this year's I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.
Josh Pugh has been crowned the Hot Water Comedy Club Comedian Of The Year following the final which took place at the Liverpool comedy club tonight.
Pugh has already featured in a number of comedy competitions in 2016. He won the English Comedian of the Year competition in July. Review here.
The other finalists were:
Simon Wozniak
Stu Woodings
I’m so old I saw Terry Johnson’s warped comedy the first time round in 1994 when David Haig and Zoe Wanamaker played the main couple, whose marriage breakdown was played out against a backdrop of middle-aged men obsessed with deceased entertainers. Two decades on it now feels very much like a period piece - it includes a remark about a mobile phone that can remember 12, yes, 12 numbers – but a very funny one.
There has been talk recently about the lack of old comedians on our TV screens, but age does not seem to have held seasoned Canadian Mike Wilmot back. He has appeared on Live at the Apollo and with Rich Hall on Rich Hall’s Cattle Drive and Fishing Show. The only thing holding Wilmot back from wider exposure might be his beyond-the-knuckle subject matter. Among other things he talks about sex and old age and sex in old age with a scrupulous eye for both detail and authenticity.
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