Bridget Christie, no less, has called Dutch absurdist Hans Teeuwen “the gold standard of comedy” and says that the first time she saw him, in 2008, it was like “watching a hilarious snake slowly digest a rat, while pulling funny faces and playing The Horst Wessel Lied on a tin whistle.” I’m not sure I can improve on that description. To put it bluntly Teeuwen is a unique talent in a class of his own, extremely versatile, extremely unpredictable and extremely exciting.
2002 Perrier Award winner Daniel Kitson is performing his latest narrative show Mouse – The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought at St Anns Warehouse in New York from November 9 - 27. tickets can be bought here.
I was told earlier today that there is no press access for Dave Chappelle's run of intimate shows in London this week so I went on the website for the Electric Ballroom in Camden to buy tickets and saw this interesting announcement:
How kind of the BBC to save the sitcom pilot with the most potential until last. They probably realised that something written by Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan* alongside - and no disrespect meant to them at all - Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh would be a tough half hour to follow. And sure enough Motherland hits the sitcom motherlode.
One of the highlights of this latest series of BBC iPlayer comedies is Tim Renkow’s short film clearly based on some of his real-life experiences.
Comedian Amy Schumer had a heckler removed from the audience during a gig this week.
The male audience member had reportedly shouted out “Show us your tits” soon after she started the show which is part of her current European tour. The gig was at Stockholm’s Hovet arena on Wednesday night.
Further to the unveiling of a raft of new Radio 4 comedies earlier this week, there is one more new show that the BBC did not include in its announcement and it is a good one.
The new show stars award-winning comic Tony Law and is called Tony Law: Canada’s Premier Adventurer. It is a brand new sitcom in which the eccentric Canadian stand-up plays a celebrity explorer.
Peep Show might be over but Robert Webb quickly returns to the sitcom fray in this one-off pilot as part of the Landmark Sitcom Season and there is plenty to enjoy here. If, that is, you like your comedy extremely dark and nasty.
If I was commissioning a chat show I’m not sure if I’d have picked John Bishop as host. He’s a great talker and a great teller of stories but is he a great listener? Michael McIntyre has already had a crack at the talk show format and that wasn’t a great success, so can Bishop do any better?
US Comedy heavyweight Dave Chappelle has announced a run of intimate London shows taking place at Brixton Electric and Camden’s Electric Ballroom next week. Tickets go on sale Wednesday 31st August at 10am from here.
These very special shows are only the second time Dave Chappelle has come to the UK to perform a full stand-up set following his sold-out, critically acclaimed shows at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith last year.
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