Danny Baker’s rose-tinted TV memoir continues with more ducking and diving from various members of the Baker clan. The emphasis here is on influential patriarch, Fred “Spud” Baker (Peter Kay), whose job seems to consist of emptying boats and sticking half of everything in his pocket. But a new security team threatens his livelihood: “the only thing I’m earning at the moment is me wages,” cries Spud at one point.
It’s the old case of double trouble this week, when Mitch Rust’s evil identical twin Vince escapes from Justice City’s penitentiary and decides to steal the Mayor’s most precious football sticker.
And that, in a cotton-picking nutshell, is all you need to know about the plot. John Kearns does his own twist on the Tom Hardy-like two-pronged performance as both Rust twins. Only a tell-tale tattoo above his exquisitely filmed chubby bum crack separates them.
Comedian Nick Helm has befriended a large turtle to record a promotional clip for the forthcoming Roar with Laughter show at the Eventim Apollo.
The gig, in aid of international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) Asiatic lions campaign, takes place on October 9. It features Helm alongside Marcus Brigstocke, Rich Hall, Jeremy Lion, Robin Ince, Miles Jupp, Dominic Holland, Tiff Stevenson and Greg Burns with more acts to be announced over the coming months.
ITV has commissioned a brand new prank hybrid series, Glitchy, to come to ITV2 screens this autumn, starring Ryan Sampson from ITV2’s Plebs.
The series will parody much loved and recognisable television shows throwing them into a surreal and parallel television world. All the television shows are fake but the unsuspecting members of the public believe them to be real.
Further to BTJ's column speculating on how the comedy world would respond to the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour's new leader there have already been some entertaining developments.
It has actually been David Cameron's comments that prompted the pithiest satire. After the results were announced the PM's Twitter account tweeted that Corbyn's election posed a threat to "our national security, our economic security and your family’s security.”
Daniel Sloss has slotted in European tour dates this autumn alongside his UK tour. The acclaimed Scottish stand-up will be performing his latest show Dark in the UK and his previous show Really?! in countries across the continent from Iceland to Croatia. The European tour also includes dates in Lithuania, Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic, Sweden, Austria and Germany.
The QI Elves – the researchers behind BBC's hit comedy panel show QI – have signed to indie label Alcopop! Records to release the UK’s first ever vinyl podcast.
It is still too early to say whether Jeremy Corbyn’s landslide victory will be good for the country but one thing is certain. It will be good for comedy. If there were not enough jokes already hurtling around the Twitterverse following his election, we can expect plenty more in the weeks and years to come.
If having a strong back story is good for comedy then Australian stand-up Corey White is sorted. As he explains at the outset, his father was a criminal, his mother was a junkie who died of an overdose. If White can find the funnies in this he can probably find the funnies in anything.
Nish Kumar, who picked up a Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination this year, was the best-reviewed comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe at the 2015 Festival.
The British Comedy Guide looked at over 1900 different comedy shows, collating more than 5000 reviews from over 50 publications in August and analysed the write-ups.
Here are the top ten performers who notched up more than 10 reviews with 4 or 5 stars.
1. Nish Kumar
2. Alex Edelman
3. Felicity Ward
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