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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.
The Edinburgh Fringe’s Assembly venues have put their first batch of tickets on sale.
Highlights include:
A run of Talking To Strangers, a live spin-off of the recent R4 series featuring Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan at the George Square Studios.
Daniel Kitson is to perform a new show later this year.
Mouse – The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought will have its world premiere at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool on May 17 and run until May 28.
Tickets go on sale on March 23 here. There is also more info about it at the same link.
Magician Paul Daniels has died aged 77. He had been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour
His son Gary tweeted "It is with incredible sadness that I can confirm that Dad, Paul Daniels, passed away over night."
Dave Cohen has written funny lines for shows as diverse as Have I Got News For You and Not Going Out. But before that he was a successful stand-up comedian. And before that he was a rock critic. He is about to return to the live circuit with a show that also refers back to his earlier career. Music Was My First Love is a stand-up show with a difference – it consists of one long poem. And appropriately he is premiering it at the Poetry Cafe in London.
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