London-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani has won the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2015.
The final, hosted by Patrick Kielty at the Comedy Store, was broadcast live on BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright In The Afternoon Show with six comedians battling it out for the coveted accolade. This year’s finalists were Athena Kugblenu, Andy Storey, Ken Cheng, Michael Stranney, Russ Peers and Yuriko Kotani.
Romesh Ranganathan is to join Ben Miller and Countdown's Rachel Riley for a new ITV1 series entitled It's Not Rocket Science.
A pilot was shot earlier this year and Ben Miller confirmed that a full series was being made at an ITV event in late 2015.
The last time I saw James Acaster someone walked in late carrying two pints of lager and Acaster just went “Legend”. It seemed so out of character and out of context during his finely honed latest show, Represent, that it stuck in my mind. As did the rest of the brilliant Foster’s Award nominated set, in which the Kettering comic told the story of the time he did jury service and had great fun painting vivid thumbnail sketches of his fellow jurors. I won’t spoil the details, just go and enjoy them yourselves.
Comedian Sara Pascoe has announced a major new UK tour for 2016, entitled Animal.
The tour starts on 6th May in Aldershot and tickets are now on sale,
I try not to binge-watch TV shows, but I think I’m going to have to fight to resist gorging on Aziz Ansari's Master of None. The first episode of the new 10-part Netflix series pretty much ticks all the right boxes. It is sharp, relevant, adult, silly and, most importantly, very funny.
Here's my highlight of this year's Children In Need. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan reunited for two-and-a-bit priceless minutes of prime cut impressions, entitled The Trip To Tom. In keeping with the Children in Need theme there's a deliciously tasty Wogan-Off (clearly pre-recorded and slightly scuttled by Wogan pulling out, but who cares when it is so funny?). And, of course, there's a tasty Tom Jones session with Coogan and Brydon duetting on an epic, gut-busting cover version of the Thunderball theme.
It is well-known that before he became Dr Who Peter Capaldi had a lengthy track record as a comic actor, but a cutting has surfaced revealing his less documented past as a stand-up comedian.
The cutting is a review of a stand-up gig at Henry Afrika's Club in Glasgow in the Spring of 1983, which was reviewed by NME writer Andrea Miller.
Jason Manford has become embroiled in a controversy following his heartfelt, expletive-packed Facebook post condemning the attackers in Paris as cowards for killing innocent people just out enjoying themselves.
He went on to say: "For what? In whose name? Are you doing this in the name of your god? Cos I've got news for you, if you think your 'god' is gonna reward you for this type of atrocity then your god is a massive cunt."
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.
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