Comedian Joel Dommett has joined the line-up for this year's I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.
Josh Pugh has been crowned the Hot Water Comedy Club Comedian Of The Year following the final which took place at the Liverpool comedy club tonight.
Pugh has already featured in a number of comedy competitions in 2016. He won the English Comedian of the Year competition in July. Review here.
The other finalists were:
Simon Wozniak
Stu Woodings
I’m so old I saw Terry Johnson’s warped comedy the first time round in 1994 when David Haig and Zoe Wanamaker played the main couple, whose marriage breakdown was played out against a backdrop of middle-aged men obsessed with deceased entertainers. Two decades on it now feels very much like a period piece - it includes a remark about a mobile phone that can remember 12, yes, 12 numbers – but a very funny one.
There has been talk recently about the lack of old comedians on our TV screens, but age does not seem to have held seasoned Canadian Mike Wilmot back. He has appeared on Live at the Apollo and with Rich Hall on Rich Hall’s Cattle Drive and Fishing Show. The only thing holding Wilmot back from wider exposure might be his beyond-the-knuckle subject matter. Among other things he talks about sex and old age and sex in old age with a scrupulous eye for both detail and authenticity.
Editor's note: There is currently a lot of sketch comedy on the live circuit. There was recently even a whole festival devoted to the genre – Sketchfest. And From November 15 - 19 high energy trio Birthday Girls bring their hit Edinburgh show Sh!t Hot Party Legends to the Soho Theatre.
The Midlands Comedy Awards nominations have been announced today. Black Country punsmith Masai Graham (pictured) again leads the nominations at this year’s Midlands Comedy Awards, with nods in the Best Act, Breakthrough Act, Live Show and Online Comedy categories.Graham, who is the reigning UK Pun Champion and won the Best Joke of the Fringe prize in Edinburgh this summer, received nominations in the same categories last year, but only won the Online Comedy prize for 2015.
Hugh Dennis, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Mel Giedroyc and Noel Fielding will compete to be crowned Taskmaster champion in series four of the hit show starring BAFTA-nominated Greg Davies and Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Alex Horne. Series four and five of Taskmaster, 2015’s most watched commission on UKTV Play, are scheduled to air in 2017.
I, Daniel Blake, starring comedian Dave Johns has been nominated for more British Independent Film Awards than any other film this year.
The acclaimed movie directed by Ken Loach has received seven nominations. Dave Johns has been nominated for Best Actor alongside Max Records for I Am Not a Serial Killer, Michael Fassbender for Trespass Against Us, Shia Labeouf for American Honey and Steve Brandon for My Feral Heart. Johns is also up for Most Promising Newcomer alongside his co-star Hayley Squires.
Principal photography has started on Ghost Stories, the film based on the original Olivier nominated stage production. The film is co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (writer The League of Gentlemen, Psychobitches) and Andy Nyman (The Commuter, Severance) who co-wrote and directed the original stage production.
You would think that Nigel Farage’s life over the last few months would be ripe for satire. The BBC certainly thinks so, hence this one-off mockumentary about his post-Brexit antics. The trouble is that the UKIP leader’s recent life is actually way beyond satire, making it hard for this programme to get that many more laughs by fictionalising it.
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