Today is the 92nd anniversary of Tony Hancock's birth and despite rumours that the BBC would not be making more of the 'lost' episodes of classic radio sitcom Hancock’s Half Hour there is good news after all.
BBC Radio 4 has announced the return of its much-loved show The Missing Hancocks, which has just been commissioned for a third series.
Starring Kevin McNally as Tony Hancock, The Missing Hancocks has so far re-recorded ten of the twenty episodes of Hancock's Half Hour lost from the BBC archives.
UK-based Malaysian stand-up Nigel Ng is the winner of this year's Amused Moose Laugh Off Final that took place at the Hippodrome in London.
He came out on top in a final that featured seven male comedians.
KG Tha Comedian was voted People's Champion in the public vote.
The seven finalists were Jake Lambert, Radu Isac, Henry Maynard, KG Tha Comedian, Mike Cox, AJ Roberts and Nigel Ng.
I don't know if it counts as Alanis Morrisette level irony, but I heard about Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle being axed by BBC2 on the way home from C4’s Comedy Gala at the 02 Arena.
The winners of the Bafta TV Awards for Comedy will be announced here as they happen.
Sitcom legends Galton & Simpson won the special Fellowship Award.
Lenny Henry was Special Award recipient
Here are the nominees and winners in comedy categories.
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme
Michaela Coel - Chewing Gum – WINNER
Miranda Hart - Miranda
Sharon Horgan - Catastrophe
Sian Gibson - Peter Kay's Car Share
Sara Pascoe is on a bit of a roll at the moment. She is a TV regular, she is touring the UK and her first book, Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, has just been published and has been getting great reviews. Ooh look, here's one.
Update 5/6: The Kickstarter campaign has been successful. The Mayoress is happening! They are now looking for more pledges to make the show even better. See below for more info.
Jack Dee, Harry Hill and Romesh Ranganathan are some of the names set to appear in a new sitcom written by and starring comedian Brenda Gilhooly.
The Mayoress stars Gilhooly in the titular role. Michelle Collins is also on board, along with Miranda actor James Holmes.
Russell Kane is probably the last person you’d expect to see tramping through the Morocco desert. And it is that juxtaposition which makes Stupid Man, Smart Phone so much fun to watch. The idea is that in each episode Kane is paired with an online star to go on an unlikely adventure. The only help they can get, hence the title, is by using their phone.
The Windsors is such an obvious idea you can't believe it hasn’t been done before. It has of course, but in rubber. Spitting Image portrayed the royal family as a cartoonish bunch over two decades ago. The difference here is that real actors play the roles and the whole thing has more of a narrative.
Two years ago I decided to go to the Edinburgh Fringe solo. Between signing up for a show and actually performing it, I lost a grandfather to cancer and then decided to take my comedy “career” more seriously. In the same breath I also decided to make the donation bucket for the show for Prostate Cancer. These two opposing decisions meant I had an interesting Fringe. The short story is three agents came to see me. I'd approached none of them.
It was Channel 4’s annual comedy gala on Friday and as usual the previewers – me included – billed it as the cream of British comedy from Michael McIntyre down. But looking at the line-up did set me thinking. The comedians on the bill all deserve to be there, but there are others that comedy seems to have overlooked. What about the ones that got away? The comedians who should have made it big?
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