Madcap comedian Jason Byrne has announced a brand new UK tour for autumn 2015. The 20 Years A Clown tour marks two decades in comedy and starts on 1st October at Colchester Arts Centre.
The Irish comic said: "I’ve been doing the comedy circuit for 20 years and I enjoy it more than ever. I’m really looking forward to getting back out on the road; this show will be more energetic and more fun than ever before!"
Legendary televised improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? is to return to the UK as a live stage show for the first time. It will make its official worldwide premiere at the Adelphi Theatre in London from Saturday 20th June. Original co-creators Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson will be working with regulars Colin Mochrie, Josie Lawrence, Greg Proops, Brad Sherwood and Clive Anderson for a limited two-week run.
Matt Berry was the winner of Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme at the Bafta TV Awards tonight for his performance in Toast of London, while Jessica Hynes won Best Female Performance for her role in W1A.
Ant & Dec won Best Entertainment Performance for Saturday Night Takeaway while The Detectorists, starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones, won Best Scripted Comedy and Graham Norton won Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme for his BBC1 chat show. A special award went to writer Clive James.
Jenny Eclair is headlining a special exclusive comedy show at London’s iconic OXO Tower to help raise laughs and money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The Grumpy Old Woman will be joined by fellow stand-ups Jason Cook and Mark Davison.
The show takes place on May 19 and to mark the occasion and the partnership between Npower and Macmillan the famous OXO Tower logo will be changed and lit up to read LOL for that one night only.
The first episode of the new series of Episodes makes me think of gangsters. The phone ringing at the start reminded me of the phone ringing at the start of Once Upon A Time In America, while there’s an air of The Godfather in the way that Beverly (Tamsin Greig) and Sean (Stephen Mangan) get dragged back just as they thought they had escaped the horrors of the American TV industry.
David Baddiel has spoken for the first time about his new show, which will examine his complex relationship with his parents. My Family: Not The Sitcom is the follow-up to his acclaimed dissection of modern celebrity, Fame: Not The Musical.
Unless you’ve spent all day in the pub you will know that Al Murray will not be taking up a seat in Westminster. But the Pub Landlord has left behind a legacy of sorts. A fun campaign that highlighted some of the absurdity of the electoral system and this entertaining fly-on-the-hustings documentary.
Russell Howard has announced more live dates of his Wonderbox show in America and Canada, thanks largely to his online presence.
Howard’s BBC3 show Russell Howard’s Good News had been widely pirated and in November 2014 a YouTube channel was set up so that fans around the world who cannot see the programme on TV can see it legitimately on the web. The channel has now had 9 million views - there are two viewers in North Korea, although Howard has no plans to tour there at the moment.
What does it say in the Bible about the last coming first? After an election campaign that has been crammed to the brink with satirical programmes, Charlie Brooker bowled along just as last orders were being called to show the rest how it should be done.
Next week on Tuesday, May 12 some of our finest comedians are gathering at the Union Chapel to support the charity War on Want, which fights against the root causes of poverty and human rights violation as part of the worldwide movement for global justice.
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