This is Kiri Pritchard-McLean's debut hour, but she is no Fringe newbie. She is a non-performing writer/director for acclaimed sketch group Geins' Family Gift Shop and knows comedy inside out. In Hysterical Woman the Chortle Award-nominated comedian tackles genetics, gender, race and being a comedian who happens to be a woman. She is a smart cookie with a warped streak and plenty of opinions. And a very funny smart cookie too.
Brennan Reece is definitely going places. He won the English Comedian of the Year award in 2015 beating stand-ups old enough to be his parents and since then has performed in Australia and supported Joe Lycett on tour. He is a veritable livewire onstage, chatting about his family, his life, football and finding the funny side everywhere.
Find out more about him and if he is coming to your town here.
Update: Transmission date confirmed - series starts on Oct 18 at 8pm. Vic and Bob appear in the episode on November 1.
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are uniting for the new series of Celebrity Storage Hunters. Bob has appeared in the programme before and will now be joined by his double act partner. Their Shooting Stars co-stars Ulrika Jonsson and Johnny Vegas will also be appearing.
I laughed like a loon at Adam Hess' Fringe show last summer. The gags flew around the room at such a fast and furious pace that I was still chuckling at one punchline when the next one hit me. He more than deserved his Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination. As well as the wordplay and one-liners there is a playful, childlike streak to Hess. He felt a bit like a boy trapped in a man’s body. His new show is called Feathers.
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.
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