It is certainly not the most cutting edge comedy on the screen at the moment. Far from it. In fact the opening sketch this week in which Walliams changes swear words around (“duck off you annoying winkers”) to avoid offending viewers could have been an update of an old Ronnie Barker skit.
Comedian Carl Donnelly is looking for people to stand-in for his podcast partner Chris Martin.
Donnelly and Martin regularly record the Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Podcast, which was included in the Guardian’s ‘top 10 comedy list’ and has over 50,000 followers. But next year when Donnelly is touring the UK with his latest show Bad Man Tings Martin will be in Los Angeles, so they will be unable to meet up to record together.
The David Nobbs Memorial Trust, established after the death of the Reggie Perrin author, has launched its first annual comedy writing competition. The first prize of £500 as well as any runner-up prizes will be awarded after judges turn their critical eye on entries, which can be submitted from January 1 until January 15.
The line-up has been confirmed for the NATYS Top of the Bill Showcase in January.
The late Harry Secombe’s son Andrew Secombe has been cast in his father’s role in new episodes of Radio 4’s The Missing Hancocks, which are being recorded this weekend in London.
Jon Richardson is co-hosting an edition of The One Show live on BBC1 for the very first time tonight. Richardson will be co-presenting the weekday tea-time show alongside regular host Alex Jones with Nicole Scherzinger as tonight's special guest.
The grumpy, pedantic comedian has recently announced his biggest UK tour yet, entitled The Old Man. Dates here.
The Comedy Cafe, one of the oldest comedy clubs in London, is to close after 26 years.
Andrew Sachs, the actor who will always be known as Manuel from Fawlty Towers, has died. He was 86.
Reports say that he had been suffering from dementia and died in a care home.
Sachs had a long career and in recent years had appeared in Coronation Street and Casualty. In 2008 he became embroiled in the scandal that became known as Sachsgate when Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left a rude message on his answerphone.
Last night Beyond The Joke gave away who had been evicted from I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here in the headline and spoilt the fun for viewers who planned to watch the programme on catch-up. So this time we have been vague in the headline and will reprint a joke Joel Dommett told in the programme before revealing the results further down the page so that the Facebook intro doesn't give the latest news away either.
"In the new Fast and the Furious movie they have new aerodynamics on the cars. Spoiler Alert."
Comedian Olaf Falafel has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins Children’s Books. The former art director will both write and illustrate the books.
Olaf put out a call for a publisher for his picture book on Twitter on November 22nd, igniting a frenzy of interest from publishers and agents alike. Within 24 hours, Alice Blacker, Picture Books Publishing Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books had secured the deal from Jo Unwin at JULA Ltd.
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