Josh Widdicombe recently cropped up in a BBC documentary about sitcoms saying how much he loved the genre. And he clearly adores the classics because the second series of his flatshare sitcom seems to be channelling a number of milestone comedies from the past four decades.
John Finnemore has some of the most devoted, committed fans in the world of comedy, but just in case there are some lovers of his humour out there who don't already know this, a sixth series of his award-winning Souvenir Programme is about to be recorded, featuring loyal stalwarts Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
The recording dates are as follows and there is a ticket application link below the dates:
Matt Forde’s new political series nearly hit the buffers before it had even been recorded. Forde’s first guest was scheduled to be Labour leadership contender Owen Smith, but he pulled out. Forde suggested on the show that Smith was concerned about appearing laddish. It was a shame, but his stand-in, former Home Secretary Alan Johnson was good value for money anyway.
Following last week’s Hancock the final Lost Sitcom is another Galton and Simpson classic, which just goes to show how important these writers were in setting up the template for the successful modern sitcom.
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:
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