The UK's highest ever comedy gig has taken place. The show, entitled Summit Funny, was at 3196ft on the summit of of Ben Lomond. Over 100 hillwalkers attended the event.
Frank Skinner is to present a second series of The Rest is History, the comedy discussion show he created for BBC Radio 4. Recordings will take place at London’s Drill Hall and audience tickets are available here.
Free Fringe Founder Peter Buckley Hill has now posted the following on the Facebook Comedy Forum and the Chortle Forum. He is still maintaining that he and not Freestival has the rights to programme Cowgatehead this August and is offering those who are booked with Freestival the chance to apply for slots with Free Fringe by this Friday.
The BBC has decided not to recommission Never Mind The Buzzcocks. One of its longest-running panel shows, the irreverent quiz first started in 1996.
There have been a number of cast changes over the years. Mark Lamarr was the original quizmaster, followed by Smon Amstell, a variety of guest hosts and, more recently, Rhod Gilbert.
Team captains Sean Hughes and Bill Bailey also departed, but Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding were enduring regulars.
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.
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