The Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year competition has had a good run when picking winners recently. As well as spotting the likes of Josh Widdicombe and Jason Manford, Romesh Ranganathan only won the competition in 2013 and has had a positively meteoric rise. This year’s winner might take a little longer to end up all over your TV screens, but he is so horribly young he has plenty of time to make it. And he surely will.
Magician Paul Daniels has been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour.
His publicist has issued a statement regarding the 77-year-old entertainer. "We can confirm that one of our greatest magicians and entertainers of all times, Paul Daniels, has sadly been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour.
Legendary comedian Steve Martin did his first stand up set in over 30 years last night in New York.
The white-haired 70-year-old was the surprise guest act at the Beacon Theatre on the second night of Jerry Seinfeld's current run there.
It is thought that Martin may have decided to dust off his stand-up muscles after chatting to Seinfeld about comedy when he appeared on his online series, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.
America's Marguerite Grant has been crowned winner of the Silver Stand Up Final at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival, hosted by Mrs Barbara Nice.
Six finalists were selected to compete in front of a packed Bowie’s Bar at the Belmont Hotel – Colin Harris, Sandra Hale, Fred Ferenczi, Debra Heighton, Brian Cowles and Marguerite Grant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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