Comedian Damian Kingsley has raised over £20,000 for Shelter and Shelter Scotland following his "penniless" tour from Land's End to Edinburgh in which all the proceeds went to charity. He is now writing a book about his experience.
I have to confess that outspoken American satirist Barry Crimmins is a new name to me, but he has a pretty impressive CV. He was a key figure in the Boston comedy movement in the eighties and more recently has become known for his campaigns against online child pornography - Crimmins was raped as a child. If you want more background fellow comic Bobcat Goldthwait made the documentary about him entitled Call Me Lucky.
Russell Howard's new six-part series, Russell Howard & Mum USA Road Trip, will premiere on Comedy Central UK on Wednesday 19th October at 10pm.
Hans Teeuwen’s eagerly anticipated UK tour starts at the Soho Theatre tonight. Many of the early dates are already sold out but there should be some tickets available for later shows if you click here and scroll down.
A few years ago, following a performance in Edinburgh, someone said of my shows that they were all about freedom. Only on rare occasions throughout my nearly twenty-year career (if you can call it that) have I ever flirted with the possibility that any of my shows had a theme. Usually, when queried about theme by an interviewer or prospective punter, I opt for the convenient catch-all terms of “dreamlike” or “nightmare-esque” or even “LSD trip”.
Channel 4 has acquired the UK broadcast rights to This Is Us, the latest show from Dan Fogelman, the writer/reator of Crazy, Stupid, Love.
With its first-look trailer amassing a record-breaking 64 million Facebook views and 8.5 million on Youtube, the 20th Century Fox Television series has become the most anticipated show of the season.
I, Daniel Blake, the film directed by Ken Loach and starring comedian Dave Johns has won the Audience Prize Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Johns posted the news on Twitter, adding that it had won with the highest score ever in the festival's history.
The film has already won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is released in the UK on October 21.
Monty Python veteran Terry Jones has been diagnosed with dementia.
I used to think of podcasts as the kind of thing nerdy spods did in their bedroom for other nerdy spods to listen to in their bedroom, but in recent years they have gone overground. There are podcasts for all tastes and a lot of the best comedy-related ones are getting a live outing at Kings Place at the first ever London Podcast Festival. For the full line-up click on the link below.
Comedian Nish Kumar has contributed to a new anthology of writing about life in multicultural Britain today.
The Good Immigrant brings together emerging British BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writers, poets, journalists and artists. In these essays about race and immigration, they paint a picture of what it means to be ‘other’ in a country that wants you, doesn’t want you, doesn’t accept you, needs you for its equality monitoring forms and would prefer you if you won a major reality show competition.
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