Jena Friedman certainly looks like she has plenty of attitude in her surly press shots. And calling her show American C*nt – even with an asterisk – is quite audacious. Onstage, however, she is less in your face. There are only flashes where she justifies her own build-up.
Conspiracy theorists can have a field day with the fact that in some places episode four was billed as The Migrant Crisis. In fact our stand-up sage-cum-holy-fool is here to guide us through his thoughts on death this time. Did it change or did someone get it wrong? More pertinently, however, the show is a return to top form after a spot of water-treading last week.
The first batch of comedy and cabaret acts for this year's Latitude Festival have been confirmed.
The major headliner is Russell Howard, doing a rare top-of-the-bill show ahead of his next world tour. Two further big comedy names will be announced at a later date but revealed today are lots of other appealing attractions for the comedy and cabaret tents over the long weekend of July 14 - 17 in Henham Park, Suffolk.
Applications have now opened for the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2016.
Last year's winner was Yuriko Kotani. Recent winners include Angela Barnes, Steve Bujega and Lucy Beaumont. The competition has also helped to kick start the careers of Sarah Millican, Rhod Gilbert and Peter Kay.
This year broadcasts will move from Radio 2 to Radio 4 and 4 Extra.
Apply here.
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Adam Buxton is to headline a show at the London Palladium with ventriloquist Nina Conti.
The show, on May 28, will be part of a new season of Palladium Party variety shows promoted by innovative company Invisible Dot.
Since BBC Three went online it has had identity problems. A show such as Cuckoo might be good but it doesn’t seem to chime with the bold new future of online viewing. On the other hand Flat TV, which originated on the web, feels exactly like the programme you might expect an online channel aimed at a young audience to make. In both a good way and a bad way.
A new crowdfunding platform specially for Edinburgh Fringe shows is to be launched in April.
Barry Cryer has been named The Legend of Comedy at this year's Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival Awards ceremony. Previous legends, voted for by the public, have included Rik Mayall, Ken Dodd and Sir Norman Wisdom.
The latest volume of Alexei Sayle’s autobiography, following Stalin Ate My Homework, takes us through the most exciting – and contrasting – years of his life. At the start he is a penniless student, at the end he is hanging out with Sting and wrestling with his politically charged conscience about success and money.
The Glasgow International Comedy Festival enters its last week and there is still plenty to catch. When I was there last week the city was hotter than Barcelona – a stark contrast to the last time I visited, when I came out of a Ronnie Corbett gig and the snowdrifts were so thick Corbett would have been completely covered. And the comedy this year has been pretty scintillating too, with great gigs already including Romesh Ranganathan and Isy Suttie.
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