I first saw Yasmina Reza's three-handed Art about fifteen years ago. It had been running for a few years and a number of comedians had been parachuted into the cast to give the box office a boost. I missed Frank Skinner and Jack Dee but saw a peach of a production with all three of the League of Gentlemen, Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton playing the roles of friends who clash over the pricey purchase of a plain white canvas.
The Piccadilly Comedy Club New Comedian of the Year final has become a pretty good talent-spotter in recent years. Rising star Sofie Hagen was a previous finalist and last year’s winner, Eshaan Akbar, who did a fine job of compering this year’s show, is now managed by Micky Flanagan’s manager and clearly going places.
Comedian Ben Pope was crowned Piccadilly Comedy Club New Comedian of the Year in London.
Ed Night (formerly known as Ed Day) was second.
Daniel Audritt was third.
Full review here.
The three judges have been announced for the first David Nobbs Memorial Trust writing competition, which opens for submissions on 1st January 2017.
For those who missed series one of Chewing Gum, explain a little bit about the show.
The show is centred around a girl called Tracey Gordon, who lives in Tower Hamlets, and it’s about her upbringing, which is a very Pentecostal, evangelical life. She decides, at 24, that she wants to have a more normal life, so it’s about adolescence ten years too late. It explores friendship, sexuality, relationships, jobs, class, everything.
The first picture of Lee Mack in his debut stage role has been released. And it has also been announced that Mathew Horne (pictured behind Mack and Griff Rhys Jones), Andi Osho, Ellie White and Katy Wix will also join the cast for the revival of Moliere's The Miser.
The play, newly adapted by Sean Foley and Phil Porter, will be presented at Bath Theatre Royal and Richmond Theatre, prior to opening at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End on Wednesday 1st March 2017, with an opening night on Monday 13th March 2017.
Filming in London has wrapped on Finding Your Feet, starring BAFTA award-winner and Oscar nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake, Maleficent, Harry Potter, Pride) and BAFTA nominee Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, Harry Potter, The King’s Speech). The production will move to Rome for its final week of principal photography.
A new seasonal video has been released which is voiced by Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The 12 Days Of Christmas: A Tale Of Avian Misery explores the challenge of trying to fit an entire farmyard's-worth of poultry into a small North London flat.
It is certainly not the most cutting edge comedy on the screen at the moment. Far from it. In fact the opening sketch this week in which Walliams changes swear words around (“duck off you annoying winkers”) to avoid offending viewers could have been an update of an old Ronnie Barker skit.
Comedian Carl Donnelly is looking for people to stand-in for his podcast partner Chris Martin.
Donnelly and Martin regularly record the Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Podcast, which was included in the Guardian’s ‘top 10 comedy list’ and has over 50,000 followers. But next year when Donnelly is touring the UK with his latest show Bad Man Tings Martin will be in Los Angeles, so they will be unable to meet up to record together.
Pages
Zircon - This is a contributing Drupal Theme
Design by
WeebPal.
