Editor's note: There is currently a lot of sketch comedy on the live circuit. There was recently even a whole festival devoted to the genre – Sketchfest. And From November 15 - 19 high energy trio Birthday Girls bring their hit Edinburgh show Sh!t Hot Party Legends to the Soho Theatre.
The Midlands Comedy Awards nominations have been announced today. Black Country punsmith Masai Graham (pictured) again leads the nominations at this year’s Midlands Comedy Awards, with nods in the Best Act, Breakthrough Act, Live Show and Online Comedy categories.Graham, who is the reigning UK Pun Champion and won the Best Joke of the Fringe prize in Edinburgh this summer, received nominations in the same categories last year, but only won the Online Comedy prize for 2015.
Hugh Dennis, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Mel Giedroyc and Noel Fielding will compete to be crowned Taskmaster champion in series four of the hit show starring BAFTA-nominated Greg Davies and Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Alex Horne. Series four and five of Taskmaster, 2015’s most watched commission on UKTV Play, are scheduled to air in 2017.
I, Daniel Blake, starring comedian Dave Johns has been nominated for more British Independent Film Awards than any other film this year.
The acclaimed movie directed by Ken Loach has received seven nominations. Dave Johns has been nominated for Best Actor alongside Max Records for I Am Not a Serial Killer, Michael Fassbender for Trespass Against Us, Shia Labeouf for American Honey and Steve Brandon for My Feral Heart. Johns is also up for Most Promising Newcomer alongside his co-star Hayley Squires.
Principal photography has started on Ghost Stories, the film based on the original Olivier nominated stage production. The film is co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (writer The League of Gentlemen, Psychobitches) and Andy Nyman (The Commuter, Severance) who co-wrote and directed the original stage production.
You would think that Nigel Farage’s life over the last few months would be ripe for satire. The BBC certainly thinks so, hence this one-off mockumentary about his post-Brexit antics. The trouble is that the UKIP leader’s recent life is actually way beyond satire, making it hard for this programme to get that many more laughs by fictionalising it.
With all the Netflix traffic seeming to go to Black Mirror at the moment it will be a shame if this first TV series for Miranda Sings, Haters Back Off, gets overlooked. It is utterly nuts, but in a good way.
There was a bit of a Facebook hoo-ha about my review of the first instalment of Charlie Brooker's new Netflix series because I said it wasn't funny enough. Maybe the comments had a point. While there were a few warped witticisms in the first tale Nosedive, the next self-contained story, Playtest, is truly the stuff of dystopian nightmares.
Charlie Brooker has done pretty well for himself. His latest series of Black Mirror has been made for Netflix and the first episode of six all simultaneously released is directed by Joe ‘Atonement’ Wright and has all the gloss of a Hollywood production. It’s not laugh-out loud funny. In fact it feels so accurate it is more scary than satirical.
The first image has been released from We're Going on a Bear Hunt, the new animated film set to air on Channel 4 this Christmas; The half hour film will expand the universe of the much-loved Michael Rosen book illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. Olivia Colman (Broadchurch, Peep Show, Fleabag, The Night Manager), Pam Ferris (Matilda, Call the Midwife) and Mark Williams (Harry Potter, The Fast Show, Father Brown) will bring the brand new characters of Mum, Grandma and Dad to life.
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