News: Stewart Lee Confirms Date For New Series of Comedy Vehicle

Comedian and columnist Stewart Lee has confirmed the transmission date for the next series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle on BBC2.

Writing on his Facebook page Lee posted the following:

"Stewart Lee returns to television with series four of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.

The first episode will air at 10pm on Thursday 3rd March on BBC Two.

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News: Just A Merton – Paul M Breaks Radio Record

Comedian Paul Merton will clock up 347 episodes on Radio 4's Just A Minute in the first episode of the new series, overtaking the legendary Kenneth Williams and becoming the second most featured panellist on the show. The episode goes out on February 22 at 6.30pm.

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News: New Tour & New Name For Boy With Tape On His Face

Wordless comedian The Boy With Tape On His Face, now known as Tape Face, is touring the UK this autumn. Dates have just been announced starting in Grantham on September 6. 

The artist formerly known as The Boy with Tape on His Face brings you a multi-award winning, multi-hyphenate spectacle that needs to be seen to be believed.  Join him as he conjures uproarious & moving tableaux using only the most everyday of objects and the most popular of songs.   

News: C4 Announces Cast For Windsors Soap

Channel 4 has announced the cast for its new six-part comedy soap opera The Windsors. 

Harry Enfield will play Prince Charles with Haydn Gwynne (Drop the Dead Donkey) as Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall. Hugh Skinner (W1A, pictured) is Prince ‘Wills’ William, Duke of Cambridge with Louise Ford (Crashing) his Queen consort-in-waiting,  ‘Kate’, the Duchess of Cambridge.

Podcast Review: Book Shambles with Robin Ince, Josie Long & Guest Reece Shearsmith

Robin Ince and Josie Long must be the two most enthusiastic people in comedy. I’m not sure why they even need a guest on their literary podcast Book Shambles as they can pretty much talk the hind legs off a whole stable of donkeys without any assistance. But the guests are handy as in some ways they rein in the twin-pronged Ince/Long gush-fest and the new instalment is a particularly good one.

Opinion: Intervals – Who Needs Them?

I went to see the play Jeepers Creepers at the Leicester Square Theatre a couple of weeks ago. It was no classic and received some pretty poor reviews. Some critics could not help mention that there had been an "unnecessary" interval, pushing the play to a running time of 90 minutes when maybe it would have fared better as 75 minutes straight through.

Live Review: Richard Herring, Leicester Square Theatre

Richard Herring has been developing his new show, Happy Now? for a while. An embryonic version of it was performed last summer when he did all of his past shows in one epic run at the Leicester Square Theatre. So it’s interesting that the show isn't about quite what I initially thought it was going to be about. 

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News: Adam Buxton Performs At Karaoke Circus Bowie Night

Legendary club night Karaoke Circus was revived for a one-off special last night in Bethnal Green, with stars from the comedy world paying homage to the late Thin White Duke. Highlights included Peter Serafinowicz, Kevin Eldon and Chris Addison doing numbers backed by Martin White and his band. And Adam Buxton paid homage to his late hero and his own late father with a moving, funny intro and this distinctly English version of Kooks from Hunky Dory.

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News: Atonement's Joe Wright to Direct Netflix Black Mirror

Atonement and Pan director Joe Wright will be directing one of the forthcoming episodes of Black Mirror for Netflix. The title of the episode has not been revealed but Deadline also reports that it will starr Alice Eve and Bryce Dallas Howard.

News: New BBC Radio Comedy Boss Announced

The BBC has announced that Julia McKenzie has been appointed as Executive Editor, BBC Radio Comedy. McKenzie will be responsible for overseeing in-house radio comedy output as the comedy department moves into the new BBC Studios division.

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