BBC Television has unveiled some of its Christmas comedy highlights, mixing old favourites which new projects across the channels.
Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, says: "We've pulled out all the stops this Christmas to bring the nation together with a sparkling line-up of family favourites, brand new treats and festive specials on BBC Television. We are showcasing an unrivalled range of top quality programmes across our channels that promise to deliver something for everyone."
I was listening to a podcast interview earlier this week where comedian Paul Currie told Stuart Goldsmith that he had heard that Sam Wills, aka The Boy With Tape On His Face had a five-year plan for his career. Wills certainly seems to be on schedule. Having won the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize in 2012, he has recently been a finalist on America’s Got Talent and has just announced a seven-week residency at the Garrick Theatre in London next summer.
Never mind Bros asking “when will I be famous?” Jason Manford was pretty sure he would be famous two decades ago. Manford has posted on Facebook a picture of a note that he sent as a teenager to a classmate that he had a crush on back in November 1996. It says: “To Carly, luv Jason M…I will be famous one day soon so don’t lose this!” She didn't – she recently contacted him and showed him it.
Richard Herring's latest stand-up show Happy Now? has just been released by indie DVD label Go Faster Stripe. In the show the comedian reflects on becoming a father and asks whether it is possible to find contentment and what that might do to a comedian's creativity. Watch a clip below in which he talks about his daughter's birth and reveals that he can't look at Princess Anne without thinking of her coming out of the Queen's vagina.
At one point during Ross Noble’s gig he pointed out something important: “I am contractually obliged to follow an idea as far as it will go.” Suddenly everything made sense. Noble’s brain is simply hardwired to channel maximum lunacy.
Peter Kay is to make two special appearances this December at Blackpool Opera House in aid of the Polly Haydock Appeal, a Cancer Treatment Fund for mum of three Polly Haydock from Westhoughton, Bolton.
Pete Firman has been entertaining audiences for over a decade now with his excellently chirpy brand of comedy magic. I can remember him on Five’s Monkey Magic yonks ago and since then the Middlesbrough magician has become a fixture on the Fringe and TV, almost as famous for his cheesy patter as he is for his brilliant tricks. Basically he makes things appear and disappear before your very eyes in amazing, mindblowing ways and he does it with such friendly aplomb that everyone loves him.
Filmed on location and in front of a live studio audience, David will be joined each week by a famous face playing a number of characters. Pictured is Jack Whitehall as a Benedict Cumberbatch-style Sherlock Holmes.
The friends are:
Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein, the pranksters behind The Revolution Will Be Televised, are coming to BBC2 with a new series in the new year.
In Revolting Prowse and Rubinstein target hypocrisy, the corrupt, the scandalous and the absurdity of modernity in a mix of sketches and stunts.
The BBC is to broadcast rarely heard recordings from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
The biblical spoof The Dead Sea Tapes was recorded in 1963, but not released at the time. According to reports it was pulled over fears it would flout blasphemy laws
The clips will be played in a documentary about Cook made by Victor Lewis-Smith to be aired on BBC4 later this month. Peter Cook’s widow Lin has allowed Lewis-Smith unprecedented access to his private recordings, diaries, letters, photographs and much more.
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