Russell Howard has curated the comedy line-up for Festifeel, the charity gig in aid of the CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity. The event takes place on October 8 in the cinema room located within the House of Vans in London, SE1.
Alongside Howard the line-up features:
Miranda's Sally Phillips is one of the stars of a new comedy coming to Gold alongside Downton Abbey's Charles Edwards. Henry IX is a three-part, single camera sitcom set in the fictitious, contemporary court of Henry IX, King of the United Kingdom. The script is by the creators of Porridge, Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais. Filming starts today.
Update: Labour leadership contender Owen Smith pulled out of his appearance last night and was replaced by Labour MP Alan Johnson...
Matt Forde has been one of the rising stars of political comedy in recent years and now he gets his very own series on Dave. The six-part run of Unspun with Matt Forde will be a weekly hour of chat about the chaotic current state of the nation which will hopefully a few laughs as well as insights.
Bridget Christie, no less, has called Dutch absurdist Hans Teeuwen “the gold standard of comedy” and says that the first time she saw him, in 2008, it was like “watching a hilarious snake slowly digest a rat, while pulling funny faces and playing The Horst Wessel Lied on a tin whistle.” I’m not sure I can improve on that description. To put it bluntly Teeuwen is a unique talent in a class of his own, extremely versatile, extremely unpredictable and extremely exciting.
2002 Perrier Award winner Daniel Kitson is performing his latest narrative show Mouse – The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought at St Anns Warehouse in New York from November 9 - 27. tickets can be bought here.
I was told earlier today that there is no press access for Dave Chappelle's run of intimate shows in London this week so I went on the website for the Electric Ballroom in Camden to buy tickets and saw this interesting announcement:
How kind of the BBC to save the sitcom pilot with the most potential until last. They probably realised that something written by Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan* alongside - and no disrespect meant to them at all - Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh would be a tough half hour to follow. And sure enough Motherland hits the sitcom motherlode.
One of the highlights of this latest series of BBC iPlayer comedies is Tim Renkow’s short film clearly based on some of his real-life experiences.
Comedian Amy Schumer had a heckler removed from the audience during a gig this week.
The male audience member had reportedly shouted out “Show us your tits” soon after she started the show which is part of her current European tour. The gig was at Stockholm’s Hovet arena on Wednesday night.
Further to the unveiling of a raft of new Radio 4 comedies earlier this week, there is one more new show that the BBC did not include in its announcement and it is a good one.
The new show stars award-winning comic Tony Law and is called Tony Law: Canada’s Premier Adventurer. It is a brand new sitcom in which the eccentric Canadian stand-up plays a celebrity explorer.
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