Filmed on location and in front of a live studio audience, David will be joined each week by a famous face playing a number of characters. Pictured is Jack Whitehall as a Benedict Cumberbatch-style Sherlock Holmes.
The friends are:
Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein, the pranksters behind The Revolution Will Be Televised, are coming to BBC2 with a new series in the new year.
In Revolting Prowse and Rubinstein target hypocrisy, the corrupt, the scandalous and the absurdity of modernity in a mix of sketches and stunts.
The BBC is to broadcast rarely heard recordings from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
The biblical spoof The Dead Sea Tapes was recorded in 1963, but not released at the time. According to reports it was pulled over fears it would flout blasphemy laws
The clips will be played in a documentary about Cook made by Victor Lewis-Smith to be aired on BBC4 later this month. Peter Cook’s widow Lin has allowed Lewis-Smith unprecedented access to his private recordings, diaries, letters, photographs and much more.
Comedian Joel Dommett has joined the line-up for this year's I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here.
Josh Pugh has been crowned the Hot Water Comedy Club Comedian Of The Year following the final which took place at the Liverpool comedy club tonight.
Pugh has already featured in a number of comedy competitions in 2016. He won the English Comedian of the Year competition in July. Review here.
The other finalists were:
Simon Wozniak
Stu Woodings
I’m so old I saw Terry Johnson’s warped comedy the first time round in 1994 when David Haig and Zoe Wanamaker played the main couple, whose marriage breakdown was played out against a backdrop of middle-aged men obsessed with deceased entertainers. Two decades on it now feels very much like a period piece - it includes a remark about a mobile phone that can remember 12, yes, 12 numbers – but a very funny one.
There has been talk recently about the lack of old comedians on our TV screens, but age does not seem to have held seasoned Canadian Mike Wilmot back. He has appeared on Live at the Apollo and with Rich Hall on Rich Hall’s Cattle Drive and Fishing Show. The only thing holding Wilmot back from wider exposure might be his beyond-the-knuckle subject matter. Among other things he talks about sex and old age and sex in old age with a scrupulous eye for both detail and authenticity.
Editor's note: There is currently a lot of sketch comedy on the live circuit. There was recently even a whole festival devoted to the genre – Sketchfest. And From November 15 - 19 high energy trio Birthday Girls bring their hit Edinburgh show Sh!t Hot Party Legends to the Soho Theatre.
The Midlands Comedy Awards nominations have been announced today. Black Country punsmith Masai Graham (pictured) again leads the nominations at this year’s Midlands Comedy Awards, with nods in the Best Act, Breakthrough Act, Live Show and Online Comedy categories.Graham, who is the reigning UK Pun Champion and won the Best Joke of the Fringe prize in Edinburgh this summer, received nominations in the same categories last year, but only won the Online Comedy prize for 2015.
Hugh Dennis, Joe Lycett, Lolly Adefope, Mel Giedroyc and Noel Fielding will compete to be crowned Taskmaster champion in series four of the hit show starring BAFTA-nominated Greg Davies and Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Alex Horne. Series four and five of Taskmaster, 2015’s most watched commission on UKTV Play, are scheduled to air in 2017.
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