If you look up Comedian's Comedian in a decent dictionary you will probably see a picture of Andrew Maxwell (the one here is by Richard Hardcastle). The Irish stand-up is one of our finest performers. Quite why he is not a much bigger star is one of life's great mysteries.
If you slavishly follow social media like I do you would usually think that the comedy world is in absolute rude health. Every night my Twitter and Facebook feeds are clogged up with comics who have just got home after having smashed it, stormed it or nailed it. And we aren’t just talking about Kyle Wallace last week, who ended up in Newham Hospital after impaling his hand on a spike onstage.
A flatshare sitcom about two dysfunctional blokes who seem incapable of growing up? Peep Show? No, we are talking about Josh, which by one of those quirks of scheduling starts its first series on BBC3 next Wednesday just as the first episode of the final series of Peep Show ends on C4. But flip channels and stick around, if you like one the chances are you will like the other.
The BBC has today launched a new way of accessing and keeping classic TV programmes including a number of comedies. The BBC Store enables fans to buy programmes from single episodes to boxed sets and retain them permanently.
Award-winning stand-up Gary Delaney has announced a major tour for 2016, entitled There's Something About Gary.
Delaney's last tour was extended four times and took in over 240 dates. His new tour will once again showcase exactly why he is seen as one of the premier gagsmiths of his generation. One-liner king Delaney has a simple philosophy when it comes to jokes: "A good joke should be like a drunk Glaswegian, short and punchy."
Bob Mortimer is to appear in a special Celebrity edition of Dave's series Storage Hunters to be broadcast at Christmas.
The episode of Storage Hunters was filmed before Mortimer's recent triple heart bypass surgery. It is fronted by regular presenter Sean Kelly will also feature Ross Noble, Jenny Eclair, Kimberly Wyatt, Jimi Mistry, Shaun Ryder, Bez, Lizzie Roper, Jimmy Bullard and Carl Froch.
I’m worried. You want to know what I’m worried about? I’m worried that I’m going to run out of new nice things to say about Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s screwy screwball relationship comedy (with occasional screwing). And I’m worried that I might run out of different pictures to run with each glowing review. So far this gem of a show, now quickly into its second series, has not put a foot wrong.
The widow of comedian Robin Williams has suggested that it was not depression that drove her husband to take his life in August 2014.
In an interview with People Magazine, Susan Williams says “It was not depression that killed Robin. Depression was one of let’s call it 50 symptoms, and it was a small one.”
I'm really enjoying this gently quirky romantic comedy. The twist that the lovers barely meet is almost incidental. It’s the little details and beautifully nuanced performances that really make this a winner for me. I think the moment that swung it was last week during the picnic outing when dad Ashley (Alex Macqueen) ran round and checked that all the car door handles were locked just like I do. I guess it’s a Dad Thing.
It’s a fiendishly simple format. Get a bunch of motormouth, attention-craving comics round a table, light the blue touch paper and stand back. It is no surprise that this series, in which the title of each episode is chosen from the stories, is back for a third run.
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