The first major names have been announced for next year's Teenage Cancer Trust comedy night.
Jo Brand, Kevin Bridges and Romesh Ranganathan will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. More names to be announced.
The musical acts playing the annual week of fundraising gigs organised by Roger Daltrey will include The Who, The Pet Shop Boys, Paul Weller and Olly Murs.
Tickets for all shows go on sale at 9am on Friday 2nd December from:
Comedian Joel Dommett has survived the first I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here vote.
But Danny Baker was voted off. "My winning personality once again descends upon the nation...I've had the time of me life," he said.
Dommett is well liked by viewers who have enjoyed seeing him stripped to the waist and bravely doing bushtucker trials.
A major power cut in Central London on Friday night forced Ed Gamble to cancel the final gig of his UK tour.
Gamble was supposed to be performing his show at the Leicester Square Theatre but early in the evening the power went out around the area and the venue was plunged into darkness. Gamble tweeted: "London has got Black Friday all wrong".
BBC Television has unveiled some of its Christmas comedy highlights, mixing old favourites which new projects across the channels.
Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, says: "We've pulled out all the stops this Christmas to bring the nation together with a sparkling line-up of family favourites, brand new treats and festive specials on BBC Television. We are showcasing an unrivalled range of top quality programmes across our channels that promise to deliver something for everyone."
I was listening to a podcast interview earlier this week where comedian Paul Currie told Stuart Goldsmith that he had heard that Sam Wills, aka The Boy With Tape On His Face had a five-year plan for his career. Wills certainly seems to be on schedule. Having won the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize in 2012, he has recently been a finalist on America’s Got Talent and has just announced a seven-week residency at the Garrick Theatre in London next summer.
Never mind Bros asking “when will I be famous?” Jason Manford was pretty sure he would be famous two decades ago. Manford has posted on Facebook a picture of a note that he sent as a teenager to a classmate that he had a crush on back in November 1996. It says: “To Carly, luv Jason M…I will be famous one day soon so don’t lose this!” She didn't – she recently contacted him and showed him it.
Richard Herring's latest stand-up show Happy Now? has just been released by indie DVD label Go Faster Stripe. In the show the comedian reflects on becoming a father and asks whether it is possible to find contentment and what that might do to a comedian's creativity. Watch a clip below in which he talks about his daughter's birth and reveals that he can't look at Princess Anne without thinking of her coming out of the Queen's vagina.
At one point during Ross Noble’s gig he pointed out something important: “I am contractually obliged to follow an idea as far as it will go.” Suddenly everything made sense. Noble’s brain is simply hardwired to channel maximum lunacy.
Peter Kay is to make two special appearances this December at Blackpool Opera House in aid of the Polly Haydock Appeal, a Cancer Treatment Fund for mum of three Polly Haydock from Westhoughton, Bolton.
Pete Firman has been entertaining audiences for over a decade now with his excellently chirpy brand of comedy magic. I can remember him on Five’s Monkey Magic yonks ago and since then the Middlesbrough magician has become a fixture on the Fringe and TV, almost as famous for his cheesy patter as he is for his brilliant tricks. Basically he makes things appear and disappear before your very eyes in amazing, mindblowing ways and he does it with such friendly aplomb that everyone loves him.
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