Australian comic Nazeem Hussain has clearly got a sizeable word-of-mouth following in the UK. His first night in Soho was sold out and the audience seemed to be a mix of Asians, Aussies and those simply interested in good quality stand-up. I think all three demographics left the show satisfied.
Hussain, who is of Sri Lankan heritage, last played the UK as part of package tour Fear of a Brown Planet with Aamer Rahman, and like Rahman, a chunk of his set is about the immigrant experience in Australia.
Around 150 shows at this summer's Edinburgh Fringe have been thrown into confusion by a statement issuesd on Facebook's Comedy Forum on May 21 by Peter Buckley Hill, the founder of the Free Fringe in Edinburgh.
Stewart Lee is to compere a night at the South Bank Centre paying tribute to folk legend Shirley Collins.
Dom Joly is planning to return to Channel Four to make more instalments of his breakthrough show Trigger Happy TV. Speaking to promote his new autobiography Joly shied away from describing the landmark hit series as a prank show and said that he hoped that the new episodes would be more "filmic".
Joly's series first went out between 2000 and 2003 and made Joly a major star, famous for carrying a giant mobile and shouting "I'm on the phone" at inopportune moments.
Comedian/writer Sajeela Kershi has been announced as one of the winners of an Asian Women of Achievement Awards (AWA). The winners of the 2015 Awards were announced at an event in London last night in the presence of HRH The Duchess of Gloucester, Patron HRH Princess Badiya bint El Hassan, The Rt Hon Theresa May MP, The Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP, Miriam Gonazlez Durantez, Elif Shafak and Jazmine Walia.
A bit of a change of tone in this week’s improvised celebrity murder mystery. After Jamie Laing and Greg James being very much subordinate to DI Sleet (Tom Davis), Dragon's Den alpha female Deborah Meaden – not surprisingly – doesn’t take much in the way of shit from her superior officer.
Jessica Hynes, who recently won a Bafta Award for her role as PR consultant Siobhan Sharpe in BBC sitcom W1A is to present her favourite pieces of writing to the audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in the R4 series With Great Pleasure.
Tickets are free and can be applied for at the link below. The recording takes places at the following time and place:
Following the hit BAFTA-nominated one-off which was broadcast on BBC One in 2014, Catherine Tate is bringing her foulmouthed Nan back for two further half hour episodes. The new instalments will be filmed later this year for broadcast in 2016.
The new specials will again be written by Catherine Tate, Brett Goldstein and Dan Swimer, and directed by Geoff Posner.
Following yesterday's opinion piece on Lorraine Bowen's appearance on Britain's Got Talent I was contacted by another performer, Martin Cabble-Reid, who also went from comedy clubs to the show, getting to the semi-finals in 2010 as spoof character Kevin Cruise. Cabble-Reid's cautionary story below suggests that if you are already a circuit performer going on BGT will change your career direction forever and that you may not be able to go back to your old life even if you want to... Bruce Dessau
The BBC has announced the next six new comedy pilots as part of its Comedy Feeds series on iPlayer. The shows feature, among others, Dane Baptiste, Greg James, Sarah Hadland, Jamie Demetriou, Natasha Demetriou, Liam Williams, Claudia O’Doherty and Funz & Gamez. Now in their fourth year, the Comedy Feeds exist to provide a platform for new and emerging comedy talent to showcase their work.
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