Monty Python veteran Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia.
I used to think of podcasts as the kind of thing nerdy spods did in their bedroom for other nerdy spods to listen to in their bedroom, but in recent years they have gone overground. There are podcasts for all tastes and a lot of the best comedy-related ones are getting a live outing at Kings Place at the first ever London Podcast Festival. For the full line-up click on the link below.
Comedian Nish Kumar has contributed to a new anthology of writing about life in multicultural Britain today.
The Good Immigrant brings together emerging British BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writers, poets, journalists and artists. In these essays about race and immigration, they paint a picture of what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that wants you, doesn’t want you, doesn’t accept you, needs you for its equality monitoring forms and would prefer you if you won a major reality show competition.
Joe’s first panel of celebrity guests - to be quizzed on how people close to them answered certain questions - will include television presenter Tim Lovejoy and comedians Holly Walsh and Nish Kumar.
It was interesting this week to see that Mel & Sue decided to quit The Great British Bake Off after it was announced that it will be moving to Channel 4. What will be even more interesting, however, will be to see what they do next.
Clem Fandango, the horse rather than the character in C4 sitcom Toast of London, notched up a victory in the Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr at 3.40pm on Friday. The trainer was Keith Dalgleish and the jockey was Phillip Makin.
It gave first-season sire Elzaam his first stakes winner (whatever that means).
Josh Widdicombe recently cropped up in a BBC documentary about sitcoms saying how much he loved the genre. And he clearly adores the classics because the second series of his flatshare sitcom seems to be channelling a number of milestone comedies from the past four decades.
John Finnemore has some of the most devoted, committed fans in the world of comedy, but just in case there are some lovers of his humour out there who don't already know this, a sixth series of his award-winning Souvenir Programme is about to be recorded, featuring loyal stalwarts Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
The recording dates are as follows and there is a ticket application link below the dates:
Matt Forde’s new political series nearly hit the buffers before it had even been recorded. Forde’s first guest was scheduled to be Labour leadership contender Owen Smith, but he pulled out. Forde suggested on the show that Smith was concerned about appearing laddish. It was a shame, but his stand-in, former Home Secretary Alan Johnson was good value for money anyway.
Following last week’s Hancock the final Lost Sitcom is another Galton and Simpson classic, which just goes to show how important these writers were in setting up the template for the successful modern sitcom.
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