A Trust has been formed to encourage new comedy writers. The David Nobbs Memorial Trust is supported by comedy veterans and long-time friends of the late writer David Nobbs, including Barry Cryer and Michael Palin. The aim is to raise cash from amongst the comedy community and the wider public to run an annual comedy writing competition.
Update 14/7: Damian Kingsley has made it to Edinburgh - he is doing a gig there tonight (Thursday) at the Voodoo Rooms with Tom Stade. Please give generously even if you can't go. Link for donations below.
Entries are now open for the New Act of the Year 2017 competition. Previous finalists include Russell Brand, Daniel Kitson, Eddie izzard and Harry Hill.
Last year's winner was Bilal Zafar, who is now managed by top agency Avalon and is taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe in August.
Goodnight Sweetheart, the 1990s sitcom which ran for six series on BBC One starring Nicholas Lyndhurst (Only Fools and Horses, New Tricks) is returning for a one-off special episode as part of the landmark sitcom season.
Entries are now open for the inaugural Irish Comedian of the Year competition. The prize is €2000 and a trip to perform in Australia.
The competition is organised by the same people that run Scottish Comedian of the Year and English Comedian of the Year.
Sean Lock has added a London date to his Keep It Light tour.
He will play the Eventim Apollo on May 8, 2017. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday, July 8 here.
Tributes to Caroline Aherne, whose death from cancer was announced today, have been flooding in.
Tania Alexander, who created C4's Gogglebox, which Aherne narrated, tweeted: "Beyond sad about the loss of my dear pal Caroline Aherne - she was funny, clever and a huge inspiration to me."
I don’t know how nervous performers get but I get pretty nervous sitting in the audience. Particularly when it is a relatively unknown comedian doing a free gig in a large venue that they hadn’t initially planned to play. This was what happened to Sofie Hagen last year when there was a last minute venue switch. I was worried that the audience might not warm to her as she was an unknown quantity, but from the moment she came on and opened with a particularly memorable line about pissing on a man she instantly had everyone onside.
The finalists have been announced for this year's Comedy Knights Fresh Comedian of 2016.
The BBC Trust has ruled that the episode of R4 comedy Don't Make Me Laugh broadcast on the day of the Queen's ninetieth birthday that included jokes about her sex life was in "serious breach" of editorial guidelines.
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