Jason Manford, Frankie Boyle and Ardal O’Hanlon are three of the high-profile names confirmed to do shows at the official Fanzone during the Rugby World Cup 2015.
The gigs will take place in Richmond's Old Deer Park during the September/October Tournament as part of The Big Hullabaloo, a series of ticketed events on non rugby screening days. Other performers will be announced in the next few weeks. The shows and dates are:
Frankie Boyle - Hurt Like You’ve Never Been Loved: 25 September
Everyone must surely know Mitch Benn by now. It feels as if he has doing topical songs on The Now Show since we last had a genuinely left wing government. The Liverpool-born Beatles obsessive, sorry, enthusiast, is also a regular visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe and returns this year with That Was The Future, his look at “where we are going, where we thought we were going, and what happens when we get there”. So you can probably expect some politics, some music and possibly some talk about three-course Sunday lunches in pill form.
The comedy stage has become a regular fixture on the musical festival circuit. The Reading and Leeds festivals might be best known for their rock acts but this year their comedy stage is stronger than ever. The attractions include US star of C4’s Catastrophe Rob Delaney, Seann Walsh, one-liner king Milton Jones and motormouth Russell Kane
Freestival, one of the Edinburgh Fringe’s free festivals, has confirmed that it has secured a new major performance space for the forthcoming festival. Events will take place at the New Waverley Arches.
The venue will host up to 40 free shows on four stages every day during the Fringe in the arches underneath Jeffrey Street, which forms part of the New Waverley development currently being constructed in the city’s Old Town.
Update 5/11. John Bishop, Katherine Ryan, Alex Edelman and beatboxer Beardyman have joined the line-up of Altitude 2016. Ticket details below...
The annual Altitude Comedy Festival in Mayrhofen, Austria has announced its 2016 dates. It will take place a little earlier than usual for five nights from 11th – 15th January 2016.
It is never easy being the last act on the bill in a comedy competition, but Steve Bugeja won the BBC Radio New Comedy Award in 2013 when he closed the show. His performance was so striking he felt like a headlining act rather than another competitor. He is not doing anything particularly radical, his neurotic style is geeky in a self-mocking Mark Watsonish way, but Bugeja showed a maturity and confidence that clearly impressed the judges.
Katherine Ryan has added an extra date to her Edinburgh Fringe run after all the original dates sold out. She is the first comic to sell out her 2015 run. Ryan is at The Stand from August 6 - 22 and has now added a show at the Pleasance Beyond on Wednesday August 12 at 9.30pm.
Acclaimed comedian Daniel Sloss has announced a new 35-date UK tour starting on September 18 and ending on December 5. The tour follows a run at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre during the Fringe and will be called Dark, in honour of the fact that the 24-year-old is sick of being described by people as dark.
Satirist Matt Forde has a problem. Just as he mastered his Ed Miliband impression Ed went and got wiped out at the election. Forde now has to master either Andy Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn or put on a skirt. Luckily he also has his wits to fall back on. So even if the voices aren’t quite right the jokes usually are. Forde’s profile has risen rapidly in the last year. The former flatmate of Jon Richardson has appeared with his old mate on his C4 series about growing up and has also become a regular wingman for Rory Bremner.
Comedian Simon Brodkin, better known as Lee Nelson, managed to get to the front of the FIFA press conference today. He made a quick speech and showered President Sepp Blatter in $600-worth of bank notes before being led away.
Just before he was escorted offscreen he said something about the money being for the World Cup in North Korea in 2026. Blatter responded by saying "this has nothing to do with football" and postponed the press conference until the table was cleared up.
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