Voting is now open for the Edinburgh Poster Award 2016.
Last year there were 402 entries and over 30,000 votes cast in the public vote category. Tom Parry's poster (pictured) was chosen as winner by the judges panel, while Michael Stranney & Olaf Falafel won the public vote.
Robert Webb has signed a two-book deal with Canongate and Audible to write a memoir and a novel.
According to the Bookseller the deal followed an auction with 13 publishers interested in signing the Peep Show star
Bianca Del Rio, one of the stars of cult TV show Ru Paul's Drag Race, is to tour the UK with her latest show ‘Not Today Satan’. Del Rio's dates run from February 3 - 10 next year.
A memorial plaque is to be unveiled in York in honour of comedy legend Frankie Howerd.
Dad Martin (Paul Ritter) is a bit stressed, his old friend Tony is coming to dinner. He reconnected via the internet and got the wrong Tony, it’s the one from the old days he didn’t like. “Don’t blame me, blame my brain,” he says when the family hides from Tony in the kitchen. All is set for a cracking first episode in the fourth series.
Jen Kirkman doesn’t seem to like critics very much. Well she certainly doesn’t seem to like the critic from the Guardian who gave this show two stars. If you want to see what she thinks of him have a look at her Twitter timeline earlier this week when his review appeared.
Why do some TV comedies work while others fail to hit the mark? Don’t ask me. If I knew I’d have a better job than this. Is it the writing? Is it the casting? Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote and starred in C4 houseshare comedy Crashing and now BBC Three’s Fleabag, and while the first one whiffed a bit the latest one is the real deal.
Josie Long has announced a run of shows in London this autumn for her new show, Something Better.
Long will be appearing at the Soho Theatre from September 30 - October 15.
This wil be Long's eighth solo show. It follows the success of her previous show Cara Josephine across the UK, Europe, in Australia and New York and the recent broadcast of her Radio 4 series Romance and Adventure.
Before the final headliner Bill Bailey came on on Sunday evening the compere David Morgan asked everyone to stand up so that more people could get into the tent. There were probably more people in the comedy tent for Bailey than there were at the entire first few Latitudes a decade ago.
On Saturday night I caught Mark Watson doing a Q&A to promote his new novel in the Literature tent. I was surprised to hear that he considered his proper job to be a novelist rather than a stand-up (I’m paraphrasing here, I was there for fun and had put my notebook to bed for the night). I’ve always felt that he was a brilliant performer and he confirmed this on the Sunday afternoon.
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