Puffin has announced the acquisition of Lil’ Muffin Drops the Mic, a new, laugh-out-loud middle-grade adventure from comedian Romesh Ranganathan with illustrations from James Lancett. Editorial Director, Carmen McCullough bought world rights in a two-book deal from Flo Howard at Off the Kerb. The first book will publish in July 2023.
IRN-BRU is on the hunt for Scotland's funniest folks, challenging budding jokers to make one of the nation's most hilarious comics laugh in a truly BRU-nique venue as part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
Award-winning comedian Ray Bradshaw will be the audience, and anyone whose gag gets a giggle inside a massive can of BRU will be able to learn from the greats with tickets to some of the most popular shows on the festival line up.
Award-winning, trail-blazing comedian, Paul Foot, is back on tour with Dissolve, a brand-new show which promises to be his most personal, surprising and inspired stand-up offering ever.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday 15th March 2023 at 10am and are available via paulfoot.tv, seetickets.com and plosive.co.uk.
The hugely influential improvisation pioneer Keith Johnstone has died. He was 90.
Griff Rhys Jones has sent intrigued scholars (well, me) rushing to the linguistic reference books (well, google) after he claimed that his late comedy partner Mel Smith was responsible for coining the phrase "the Dog's Bollocks".
Publisher Faber has acquired Weirdo, the first novel from comedian Sara Pascoe. It will be published on 14th September 2023.
Off Menu duo James Acaster and Ed Gamble have been confirmed for the special edition of Celebrity Hunted for Stand Up To Cancer.
The comedians, who are the co-hosts of the hit podcast Off Menu, had previously let the news slip out during Gamble's Radio X show last summer. Gamble broadcast his show in hiding and then the twosome released a video in which they taunted the hunters by appearing everywhere from on a rollercoaster to Hogwarts and the White Cliffs of Dover thanks to judicious use of green screen.
Ahead of International Women's Day six women performing at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) give their advice to women who might consider stepping on the comedy stage. GICF spoke to women at different stages of their comedy careers, and here is some of the advice they had to offer.
US comedian Sam Morrison brings his show ‘Sugar Daddy’ to London’s Soho Theatre for the first time. The dates are Wednesday 17th May – Saturday 20th May and follows on from his last critically acclaimed UK month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022.
Eddie Izzard has said that she would also like to be addressed as Suzy in the future.
The comedian was speaking to comedian Matt Forde for his Political Party podcast, which is out now here.
She is not completely changing though. "“’m gonna be Suzy Eddie Izzard”, she said. “I’ll put Suzy there and then Eddie and then people can choose what they want and no one can go wrong!”
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