Robin Ince and Josie Long must be the two most enthusiastic people in comedy. I’m not sure why they even need a guest on their literary podcast Book Shambles as they can pretty much talk the hind legs off a whole stable of donkeys without any assistance. But the guests are handy as in some ways they rein in the twin-pronged Ince/Long gush-fest and the new instalment is a particularly good one.
I went to see the play Jeepers Creepers at the Leicester Square Theatre a couple of weeks ago. It was no classic and received some pretty poor reviews. Some critics could not help mention that there had been an "unnecessary" interval, pushing the play to a running time of 90 minutes when maybe it would have fared better as 75 minutes straight through.
Richard Herring has been developing his new show, Happy Now? for a while. An embryonic version of it was performed last summer when he did all of his past shows in one epic run at the Leicester Square Theatre. So it’s interesting that the show isn't about quite what I initially thought it was going to be about.
Legendary club night Karaoke Circus was revived for a one-off special last night in Bethnal Green, with stars from the comedy world paying homage to the late Thin White Duke. Highlights included Peter Serafinowicz, Kevin Eldon and Chris Addison doing numbers backed by Martin White and his band. And Adam Buxton paid homage to his late hero and his own late father with a moving, funny intro and this distinctly English version of Kooks from Hunky Dory.
Atonement and Pan director Joe Wright will be directing one of the forthcoming episodes of Black Mirror for Netflix. The title of the episode has not been revealed but Deadline also reports that it will starr Alice Eve and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The BBC has announced that Julia McKenzie has been appointed as Executive Editor, BBC Radio Comedy. McKenzie will be responsible for overseeing in-house radio comedy output as the comedy department moves into the new BBC Studios division.
BBC iPlayer has released their latest batch of Funny Valentines shorts featuring, among others, Harry Hill and Adil Ray. We will be posting short reviews of the shorts below. Watch them here.
HARRY HILL'S LOOK AT LOVE
Johnny Vegas is one of the stars of Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories, a new four-part adaptation of short stories by the best-selling author being made for Sky Arts.
Al Murray, Richard Herring & Reg Hunter are among the comedy stars appearing at this year's Henley Festival, which runs from July 6 - 10.
Comedy website Funny Or Die has released a free all-star 50-minute send-up of the business philosophy of Donald Trump, starring Johnny Depp as the Presidential hopeful.
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