The award winning, crowdfunded, profit sharing show champions the talent of working class comedians. Best in Class were awarded the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Panel Prize for their work in 2022.
Arthur Smith’s show My First 75 Years In Comedy will transfer to Pleasance London in March 2023. Following a sold out and acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, London audiences will be able to catch up with Arthur as he reminisces about his many years visiting the Fringe, his stand up career and the adventures he has had along the way.
Comedian Darren Harriott has spoken frankly about his one-time membership of a gang and how his life could have so easily gone in a different direction. In an interview with Chris Harvey in the Telegraph the Birmingham comedian, who is set to appear in the new series of Dancing on Ice before going on tour later this year, spoke at length about his pre-comedy past.
Harriott talked candidly about his father, recalling a phone call from him at the end of 1999: "I was so happy to hear from him.
New Zealand-based comedian Urzila Carlson made a global splash with her 2020 Netflix special, Overqualified Loser. As anyone who has seen it will know she is a whipsmart, opinionated stand-up with charisma to spare.
Tributes have been paid to John Bird, who has died aged 86. Bird's career stretched from the satire boom of the 1960s to breaking through to a new audience with his work with Rory Bremner.
Bremner led the tributes on Twitter:
"Deeply saddened to hear that the great John Bird has left us. One of the most modest of men and most brilliant of satirists. And one of the last surviving pillars of the anti-establishment.
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Two generations of comedians are represented in this week's festive editions of Richard Osman's House of Games. Brian Conley comes from the Bradley Walsh school of light entertainment mainstream comics, while Phil Wang is very much part of the latest wave of Oxbridge stand-ups becoming TV regulars.
As the hit BBC One and BBC iPlayer show The Traitors reaches its epic finale on Thursday 22nd December at 9pm the final five contestants talk about their journey on the show so far.
They’ve survived numerous murders and banishments, backstabbing and treachery, but for the players left in the game it all comes down to today in the finale of the hottest show on TV.
Homegrown talent led the field as the UK’s leading film critics unveiled the nominations for the 43rd annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with British-Irish director Martin McDonagh’s dark tragicomedy The Banshees of Inisherin coming out on top with nine nominations. McDonagh, who triumphed in the Circle’s 2018 awards with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is eyeing another hefty London haul.
Coming soon to Channel 4, Everyone Else Burns is an irreverent new six-part comedy set in a fictional Christian community and centred around a family headed by patriarch David (Simon Bird, with a very different haircut). David, like his family (played by Kate O’Flynn, Amy James-Kelly and Harry Connor) is devoted to preparing for Armageddon and avoiding eternal damnation, although worldly temptations sometimes get in the way.
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