It’s about time David Walliams got round to doing some proper comedy. He has been so busy in recent years with so many different diverse projects from children’s books to charity work to camping it up with Simon Cowell it is easy to forget that he broke through with Little Britain a decade ago.
Not much in the way of tinsel in this seasonal special, but there is definitely something shiny. It’s the Anglo-Saxon treasure that Lance has unearthed. At the start of this welcome extra episode it is on display in the British Museum. But the find appears to have come with strings attached. Has Lance fallen victim to ‘the curse of the gold’?
Tiff Stevenson has announced a national tour for her latest show Mad Man. The tour runs from January to April and includes a performance at London’s Leicester Square Theatre on Thursday 31st March.
Fans of Father Ted who have seen the new Star Wars film have been commenting on a certain similarity.
We cannot say too much without giving spoilers away, but, as the Guardian reports today, there is a moment in The Force Awakens which evokes the opening credits of the classic sitcom when the camera swoops down on the characters on Craggy Island.
The sitcom sequence was filmed over Inisheer, part of the Aran Islands, while the film sequence was filmed on Skellig Island in County Kerry.
It was about twenty minutes into this comedy-drama about the making of Dad’s Army that I realised who was playing Arthur Lowe. I thought the makers had found an unknown actor and cast him because of his remarkable resemblance to the rotund Lowe. Or they'd used a hologram of the real Lowe. Then the penny dropped. It is John Sessions who has shaved his head and gone to De Niro-esque lengths to be almost as round as he is tall.
The beauty of the internet is that anyone can go out there and make their own programmes. As Richard Herring often says, it’s a joy not to have to compromise and edit your artistic vision to please a television channel.
Can this really be the end for Mark and Jeremy? I wondered how they were going to do it and for a while when I was watching the final episode I thought that the writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong were going to go out guns blazing Butch and Sundance-style with them both dead.
The king of improvisational comedy is back with his 15th tour. Following a tour of Australia Brain Dump reaches the UK in September 2016 and runs until December 2016.
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.
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