30 years since the launch of the trailblazing TV series, Drop The Dead Donkey, the Globelink News team are back, and now live on stage for the very first time.
Entries are now invited for the 2023 BBC New Comedy Awards which are returning this Autumn to BBC Three, BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
The prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards is looking for new sponsorship options to enable them to continue..
Following the return and 40th anniversary of the awards in 2022 TV comedy channel Dave, who supported the Awards in 2019 and 2022, have decided to focus on other initiatives within the comedy industry.
The Awards organisers, led by founder and director Nica Burns, has issued the following release:
Lloyd Griffith is set to embark on his brand-new UK tour with stand-up show ‘Baroque and Roll’, from 1st March to 18th May 2024, spanning across 31 dates and including some of UK's most iconic venues, such as London’s Leicester Square Theatre.
Guests have been revealed for the forthcoming season of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast interviews at, yes, the Leicester Square Theatre. There will two interviews each night.
Highlights include League of Gentlement writer Jeremy Dyson and regular Derren Brown collaborator Andy Nyman on June 26 and Be Willbond and Laurence Rickard from Ghosts and Bridget Christie on 3 July.
BBC Comedy have today launched the Editors Access Scheme to redress the lack of disability representation in Scripted Comedy editing. This interventional scheme will allow two candidates who are either deaf, disabled and/or Neurodivergent the opportunity to accelerate their careers in editing for scripted comedy.
This summer comedian Ashley Blaker aims to change how people talk about parenting children with special needs, when his book is published and his Radio 4 series, Edinburgh Fringe run and UK tour start.
Wondery and Amazon Music have announced a podcast distribution and ad-sales rep deal with award-winning Welsh comedian Rob Brydon for his hit podcast series Brydon &. The deal will see episodes of the renowned hit show publish one week early and ad-free on Amazon Music (available to Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers and Amazon Prime members) and Wondery+ from May 25th. Brydon & is produced by Rob Brydon in partnership with
Sharon Horgan has spoken at the BBC Comedy Festival in Cardiff about her work and career in comedy and drama, following her recent success with the Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters.
“The great thing about doing a drama is the realisation that comedy is still really important,” On Bad Sisters, Horgan “never thought ‘well this is a drama so I have to approach it in a different way’ – it’s the same old sh*t,” she added.
Acclaimed storyteller Mike Birbiglia brings his latest one man show The Old Man & The Pool to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a limited six night run, following sell out performances across the US, including a Broadway run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. The show opens at Underbelly’s McEwan Hall on 22 August and runs until 27 August, before embarking on a West End run at Wyndham’s Theatre from 12 September - 7 October 2023. Buy London tickets
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