Netflix has announced four new exclusive stand-up comedy specials, joining the previously announced Chelsea Handler comedy special, Uganda Be Kidding Me Live. Jim Jefferies, Bill Cosby, Bill Burr and Chelsea Peretti are the latest additions.
Ricky Gervais is developing a brand new movie, based on his creation David Brent, the focus of his global hit series, The Office.
Life on the Road is currently being developed with BBC Films and goes in to production in 2015. We find out what Brent is doing now and what's happened in the last 15 years since his redundancy from his beloved Wernham Hogg. He's a sales rep now, selling cleaning products up and down the country, but has never really given up on his dream of being a rock star.
Before the Edinburgh Fringe Festival started officially on August 1 I couldn’t help noticing how many previews there were in London. There seemed to be more than ever before, with some acts seeming to do previews all over the city at every opportunity. I interviewed Sara Pascoe in June and she mentioned that from July she would be doing nightly warm-ups.
If you aren't partial to baby-killing jokes told by someone who looks like an extra from Grease then it is probably best to give Anthony Jeselnik a miss. The Pittsburgh-born comedian starts his gig as he means to go on with a couple of quick quips about dead infants. It may not be to everyone’s tastes, but if you like your humour dark and pretty relentless and Frankie Boyle is too darn Scottish then Jeselnik may be just your cup of sick.
BTJ: Tell us about your show. Why is it called Instrumental?
The return of The Alternative Comedy Experience has got to be a Good Thing. Even though maybe its job is already done. When the first series went out last February it was championing the kind of comedians who don’t fit into shows such as Live at the Apollo and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow so don't get the TV breaks. Since then, however, it feels as if this alt-comedy brigade has been on television almost as much as John Bishop and Micky Flanagan.
"Ever since I can remember, comedy was the thing that I wanted to do,” says comedian, writer, actor and director Ben Miller. “I loved studying for my PhD [in solid-state physics], but I never really had any intention of having a career in it, so I started doing more writing, stand-up and acting, taking part in lots of student plays – all while I probably should have been researching electrons.
If you want to get an idea of the sheer sweat, graft and toil that goes into preparing an Edinburgh Fringe show you should follow Richard Herring's daily Warming Up blog at the moment. As well as talking wittily about life in general he entertainingly charts the struggle to get to his preview gigs, the difficult audiences and, most importantly, he also dissects his set as it evolves.
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