It looks as if actor/comedian Peter Serafinowicz may finally be getting close to making a sitcom based on his hapless, overweight businessman Brian Butterfield.
A joke about former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is the latest winner of Gold TV's annual competition to find the best Christmas Cracker joke.
The joke, which received 24% of votes in a poll is: 'Why does Ed Miliband like advent calendars? He gets to open the door to number 10.' The author of the winning joke, David Lawrence, receives £1,500 towards a holiday and a box of Gold Crackers, one of which will contain his own joke.
Following four series on BBC One, Adil Ray is bringing self-appointed community leader Mr Khan to the stage for three Arena performances in May 2016. Citizen Khan: They All Know Me!, will open on 5 May at Wembley’s SSE Arena, followed by Birmingham’s Genting Arena on 6 May and the Manchester Arena on 7 May. Tickets go on sale on 17 December at 9am.
It has been announced today that comedian Shappi Khorsandi will succeed physicist Jim Al-Khalili as the President of the British Humanist Association (BHA). Khorsandi will be the twelfth President in the BHA’s history and the fourth woman to take the role. She will begin her three-year term as President in January 2016.
I know I spend most of my time as a critic judging comedy but in recent weeks I really feel as if I have been judging comedy. I’ve been a panellist at two comedy competitions and reviewed another one.
2015 was Sam Simmons’ breakthrough year. He had always had a loyal cult following and had regularly picked up award nominations for his screwy comedy shows, but Spaghetti for Breakfast found him moving up through the gears. The wild unpredictability was still there but it was joined by both proper jokes and a personal back story that put his somewhat extreme behaviour onstage into context. He was a deserving winner of the Foster’s Comedy Award in Edinburgh.
ITV2's The Almost Impossible Game Show is due to return with Irish comedians Rubberbandits once again providing the commentary.
BBC2 has confirmed that comedian David Mitchell will play William Shakespeare in Upstart Crow - a six-part series which will be part of the BBC Shakespeare Festival 2016 - a major season celebrating the bard 400 years after his death. Harry Enfield will play his father John.
John Early has been described as "endearingly honest and absurdly funny" by The New York Times, "a cross between Dennis the Menace and Christopher Guest" by PAPER Magazine and "cute and young and blonde" by The Huffington Post. He'll be appearing soon in Neighbors 2 opposite Dave Franco, as well as the Netflix original series Love, executive produced by Judd Apatow. Early recently created and starred in a comedy special for Netflix, playing a variety of original characters, and he is a guest star in season five of HBO's Girls.
After a sold out national tour, a sold out Edinburgh Festival Fringe run and two sold out winter dates in the West End, ventriloquist Nina Conti is to perform her hit show In Your Face at the Criterion Theatre in London from 25th February to 12th March 2016.
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