Musical comedy trio The Midnight Beast have released a new track sending up the current Pokemon Go craze. Londoners Stefan Abingdon, Ashley Horne and Dru Wakely first broke through in 2009 when their Ke$ha parody Tik Tok went viral. To date the band have received over 78 million views on their YouTube channel.
Liz Miele's stand-up show Mind Over Melee is about her experiences as an anxiety-ridden American. She jokes about her struggles with her physical health, mental illness in her family, dating, travelling through Europe alone and coming to grips with getting older and being an adult, all with a skewed logic of an angry New Yorker trying to make sense of everything.
The release date has been confirmed for the new film from Spinal Tap star Christopher Guest, who directed Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show. Mascots will launch globally on Netflix on October 13.
The film stars Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Ed Begley, Jr., Christopher Moynihan, Don Lake, Brad Williams, Zach Woods, Chris O’Dowd, Matt Griesser, Susan Yeagley, Sarah Baker, Tom Bennett, Kerry Godliman, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Michael Hitchcock, Maria Blasucci, John Michael Higgins, and Jim Piddock.
The spoof documentary format was not invented by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, but with thudding inevitably the spirit of David Brent hangs heavy over Channel 5’s new sitcom set in an airport's border enforcement department.
It is not just the fly-on-the-wall style of filming or the voiceover or the sterile setting or the wobbly footage or the awkward glances to camera or the interviews with the bored staff at their desks.
It is all of these things.
There is going to be a major celebration of the Mighty Boosh at the Book Club in Shoreditch from October for three months. One of the highlights will be the photographic work of regular Boosh photographer Dave Brown, who you may also know as Bollo. Here to tickle your tastebuds are some lovely Boosh-related pictures by Brown.
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are in talks with the BBC about making a new sketch show. Vic Reeves revealed the news in a podcast interview with Richard Herring at the Leicester Square Theatre.
Voting is now open for the Edinburgh Poster Award 2016.
Last year there were 402 entries and over 30,000 votes cast in the public vote category. Tom Parry's poster (pictured) was chosen as winner by the judges panel, while Michael Stranney & Olaf Falafel won the public vote.
Robert Webb has signed a two-book deal with Canongate and Audible to write a memoir and a novel.
According to the Bookseller the deal followed an auction with 13 publishers interested in signing the Peep Show star
Bianca Del Rio, one of the stars of cult TV show Ru Paul's Drag Race, is to tour the UK with her latest show ‘Not Today Satan’. Del Rio's dates run from February 3 - 10 next year.
A memorial plaque is to be unveiled in York in honour of comedy legend Frankie Howerd.
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