Darren Harriott competed for the first time on ITV's Dancing on Ice last night, performing to Fireball by Pitball in a dance complete with fire and a soaking. Beginning in a make-shift kitchen, Darren and partner Tippy Packard shimmied and glided their way through the number ending with the latter soaking the comedian with a glass of water, even coining a new move the “neck flick and chill” in the process.
From February 8th to 26th, audiences anywhere will be able to watch Leicester Comedy Festival - the UK’s biggest pure comedy festival via streaming service NextUp.
Described as the ‘the Netflix of UK stand-up’, NextUp is available on web, mobile and smart TVs worldwide - bringing the Leicester Comedy Festival to more people than ever before.
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have talked recently of putting their TV series Inside No 9 onstage. And in a way they've done it here, if they decided to do their own take on the classic suburban sitcom crossed with stage farce. Except that it is written by Dr Who/Sherlock writer Steven Moffat. And Steve Pemberton is not involved. But The Unfriend does star Reece Shearsmith and his League of Gentlemen colleague Mark Gatiss directs. Heck, the house where the action is set even has a shiny Number 9 on the door.
Apologies of miscommunication last week. We were incorrectly told that Stephen Mangan and Seann Walsh were the guests on Saturday, January 21. But they are definitely the guests on Saturday, January 28.
A good comedy contingent on this week's editions of Richard Osman's House of Games. Dead Ringers star Jon Culshaw and stand-up Harriet Kemsley are joined by interior designer and Jay Rayner lookalike Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Verona Rose, actress, comedian, television presenter and writer and star of BBC Three's Fully Blown.
This week's guests on Sunday Brunch are Mark Gatiss, briodcaster Fearne Cotton, drag star Cheryl Hole and author and podcast host Giovanna Fletcher.
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards have been announced at a ceremony this evening at the Royal College of Physicians in London, hosted by comedian, writer, musician, actor and presenter, Rachel Parris.
Michael Spicer (pictured), who also presented an award, was winner of Best Online Comedy for his The Room Next Door – Boris Johnson Resignation Speech.
Best Radio Comedy was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen by David Quantick.
Best Long Form TV Drama was This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay.
Created by Emmy®-nominated writer/producer Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, The Sex Lives of College Girls follows four college roommates at New England’s prestigious Essex College. The new season picks up with the students returning after their Fall break, tackling the challenges thrown their way at the end of season one, and facing their next semester filled with new faces, parties and predicaments.
BBC Radio 4 has announced a whole host of new comedy offerings, from top talent making their Radio 4 debuts, to new comedians and the return of much-loved favourites.
Comics such as Jonathan Pie, Maisie Adam, Chris McCausland, Paul Merton, Jordan Gray and Ken Cheng will put a smile on the faces of listeners in the coming months.
Award-winning writer, composer and actor Natasha Sutton Williams stars in her Gary Strange triptych Clown Sex at the Edinburgh Fringe from August 2 - 27.
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