Peep Show might be over but Robert Webb quickly returns to the sitcom fray in this one-off pilot as part of the Landmark Sitcom Season and there is plenty to enjoy here. If, that is, you like your comedy extremely dark and nasty.
If I was commissioning a chat show I’m not sure if I’d have picked John Bishop as host. He’s a great talker and a great teller of stories but is he a great listener? Michael McIntyre has already had a crack at the talk show format and that wasn’t a great success, so can Bishop do any better?
US Comedy heavyweight Dave Chappelle has announced a run of intimate London shows taking place at Brixton Electric and Camden’s Electric Ballroom next week. Tickets go on sale Wednesday 31st August at 10am from here.
These very special shows are only the second time Dave Chappelle has come to the UK to perform a full stand-up set following his sold-out, critically acclaimed shows at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith last year.
The non-stop reading of the Chilcot Report has picked up another award. It has won the Fringe Zeitgeist Award at the inaugural Fringe awards from the Scottish arts website TV Bomb. The special event, entitled Iraq Out And Loud, was co-produced by Bob Slayer and executive produced by Omid Djalili. Comedian Boothby Graffoe was also involved in the idea.
The results of the Barry Awards have been announced today. These are awards for comedians performing in Edinburgh voted for by other comedians and comedy performers appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe. 241 votes were cast in total.
They are organised by Barry Ferns and Gareth Morinan and nothing to do with the Australian Barry Awards.
Here are the results below.
1. Best Show category
I’ve previously only ever seen purple puppet Randy with his double act partner Sammy J. But he has performed solo in the past and this year’s show, Randy Writes A Novel, finds him on his own again, a wannabe author who wants to test out his new manuscript on us.
A UK release date has been confirmed for The Comedian's Guide To Survival, the new film based on the early career of British stand-up James Mullinger and starring James Buckley.
It will be released in selected cinemas across the UK on Friday 28th October and is being distributed by Signature Entertainment.
The shortlist of nominees has been confirmed today for the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
The winners will be announced at a show at Gillie Dhu on Friday at 11.55pm which is free. Info here.
Farce legend and health campaigner Lord Brian Rix has died. He was 92.
Rix was famous for starring in farces onscreen and in the West End's Whitehall Theatre for over thirty years.
In later life he also became known as a passionate campaigner on mental health issues and was president of the learning disability charity Mencap.
Full obituary here.
The non-stop reading of the Chilcot Report from start to finish at the Edinburgh Fringe ended earlier today (Saturday). The reading of the 2.6 million word document by 1444 people lasted 284 hours and 45 minutes.
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