Richard Wilson has cancelled his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show reviving his acclaimed sitcom character Victor Meldrew after suffering a heart attack. He was due to perform I Don’t Believe It! An Evening With Richard Wilson at the Assembly Roxy for 12 nights from August 16 – 21.
His agent has confirmed that he is in a stable condition in hospital in London.
Last year Adam Hess picked up an Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination for his debut show. This year he is back and faces the tricky second show syndrome. It doesn’t seem that tricky to Hess though. If anything this show is better than 2015’s breakthrough hour.
BBC Three has announced a fourth raft of Comedy Feeds featuring rising talent. This year's batch includes A Brief History of Tim written by and starring Tim Renkow, Fail featuring Will Merrick, Limbo written by Lucien Young and Joe Parham, Man Like Mobeen written by Guz Khan and Andy Milligan, Pumped written by Stewart Thomson and The JPD3 Show from the creators and stars of Mandem On The Wall.
Ayesha Hazarika spent eight years as political adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband, but before that she had been a stand-up comedian. She is now doing stand-up again and also talking politics on TV. Follow Ayesha Hazarika on Twitter here.
Comedian Nathan Cassidy has come up with one of the best publicity stunts so far at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
A fake poster has appeared in the pedestrian underpass by the major Pleasance Dome venue advertising Cassidy’s fictional 2017 tour, The Man In The Arena. According to the poster all the dates are already sold out except for one night at the O2 Arena in London on November 4.
Josh Widdicombe and his co-presenter Georgie Ainslie are both leaving the Radio 5 sports show Fighting Talk.
After two seasons at the helm of the award winning Saturday morning quiz Widdicombe and Ainslie are both standing down due to their increasingly busy schedules.
Lou Sanders has most definitely got something. She is one of the quirkiest comics on the circuit with a distinctive style all of her own. It would come as no surprise if I am not the first person to call her Loopy Lou.
The rise of the pun comedian has been one of the interesting developments in stand-up in recent years. Tim Vine no longer has the field to himself, there is even a UK Pun Championship to find the country’s best wordplay wizard.
But they all - even Vine - suffer from the same issue. How do you turn an art form that is best suited to lollipop sticks and Twitter into a one hour show? Even Tim Vine warns his audience five minutes in that there is another 55 minutes of the same thing coming up.
American comedian Michelle Wolf is clearly a rising star. She has recently become a correspondent on The Daily Show and her Edinburgh Fringe debut marks her out as very talented both as a writer and a performer.
Edinburgh Comedy Awards director Nica Burns has appealed to broadcasters and newspapers to support new comedy.
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