Sarah Millican is the new curator of The Museum of Curiosity. She will take over the role for the forthcoming 8th series.
The Museum of Curiosity is the comedy panel show that sets out to bring together the most interesting people in the universe and ask them to submit one item each to fill the Museum's empty plinths.
Created by John Lloyd, Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber, it has proved to be one of the most loved programmes on BBC Radio 4.
The homogenous, zombie-like world of modern politics is often ridiculed by satirists – but this election campaign has made me wonder if the comedians are any less on-message.
Let me state from the get go that there is nothing wrong with comedians saying what they think about politics – in the age of Twitter, as I can testify to, it's kind-of impossible to resist the urge. Especially when there's so much to get angry about.
Hal Cruttenden has announced a new tour this autumn with his brand new show. After a month long run at the Pleasance Courtyard for the Edinburgh Festival, the Straight Outta Cruttenden UK tour starts on 11th September at Southend’s Palace Theatre and ends on 5th December at Canterbury’s Gulbenkian Theatre.
Reginald D Hunter is one of the the most exciting, unpredictable talents on the UK comedy circuit. The London-based American has a reputation for being both thoughtful and controversial, but one thing he never is is boring. Whatever the subject, from race to sex, he has an interesting take on it. And in recent months he has added a whole new group of fans with his BBC2 documentary, Reginald D Hunter's Songs Of The South.
The annual Barclaycard British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park has announced its comedy bill for June 22 – 25. The four-day event in the centre of London boasts an impressive international line-up. The nightly headliners are American Rich Hall alongside his band, Australian Jim Jefferies and Irishmen Ed Byrne and Ardal O’Hanlon.
Supporting Rich Hall on June 22 are Marcus Brigstocke, Shappi Khorsandi and Romesh Ranganathan with special guest host Russell Kane.
Update 16/5. Richard Herring has hit his target. He has raised £30,153 with 4 days to go. You can still donate, however, so that he can add more extras, etc.
I was recently commissioned to ask comedians and writers for the tricks of their trade by the Independent on Sunday. Their responses offered readers a fascinating insight into the creative mind. There was not enough room to run the full interviews in the newspaper so I've published them all below. Inevitably a number mention that nothing beats old school hard work, but there is a lot more useful advice here. Tea and hats apparently help according to Susan Calman. Pay attention and that next award could be yours.
Marcus Brigstocke is returning to BBC Radio 4 with a new series of The Brig Society, mixing stand-up, sketches and an attempt to improve the world.
Each week, Brigstocke is in charge of a big thing - the Foreign Office, football, Facebook - and attempts to make it run smoothly. He starts out by thinking "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - it's utterly difficult and I've made a complete fist of it."
The Barclaycard British Summer Time Festival in Hyde Park has announced its comedy line-up for June 22 – 25.
Samantha Baines has been crowned the winner of the third What The Frock! Newcomer of the Year Award. The competition was launched in 2012 to champion up and coming female comedy talent, to celebrate and support emerging acts and ultimately help to widen the pool of female comedians on the comedy circuit
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