Vault Festival Celebrates Record Breaking Year And Rounds Up Awards and Nominations

VAULT Festival marked the end of its decade-long run at its original venue, The Vaults on Sunday 19th March, bringing to a close a record-breaking year which welcomed more than 81,000 audience members throughout its eight week run.

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Top Comedy Club Launches Podcast In Which Stand-Ups Curate Their Dream Gig

South London comedy club Always Be Comedy is launching a podcast in which the cream of comedy sit down with ABC's James Gill and Tim Lewis to curate their dream gig. Who would open? Who would close? Any incidents they'd love to relive? Any horror stories that mustn't happen? This sort of thing and much more.
 
Episode 1 features Josh Widdicombe, episode two, out today, features Maisie Adam.

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Sketch Stars Aunty Donna Come To The UK & Ireland

Following their critically acclaimed Netflix series, Australia’s favourite absurdist sketch group, Aunty Donna, are bringing their first live tour to the UK and Ireland. It’s their first visit to perform on these shores in well over five years, and their first ever UK tour.  Their trip will see them visit Glasgow, Dublin, Bath, Birmingham, London and Manchester.

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Who Is On The Jonathan Ross Show This Week?

This week's Jonathan Ross Show features an interview with comedian Greg Davies, who is going to be pretty impossible to avoid in the next few weeks.

Davies is back as the host of Taskmaster which returns to Channel 4 on Thursdays at 9pm from March 30, but before then he also returns as the star of BBC One comedy The Cleaner from Friday, March 24 at 9.30pm.

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The New Traitors? Greg James Fronts Reality Game Show Rise And Fall

Greg James hosts Rise and Fall, Channel 4’s new reality series from the makers of The Traitors which some are calling the new Traitors.

Rise and Fall, made by Studio Lambert and Motion Content Group, is a game about what it takes to get to the top - how to win power, how to keep hold of it and how to use it to influence others.

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Biggest Tour Yet For Iain Stirling

Following co-creating and starring in two series of his ITV sitcom Buffering and releasing an Amazon Prime stand-up special Failing Upwards, plus continuing as the iconic voice Love Island, Bafta-winning comedian Iain Stirling (Taskmaster) announces his biggest UK & Ireland tour to date for Spring 2024, Relevant.

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Children's Book Deal For Romesh Ranganathan

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.

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IRN-BRU Issues Comical Challenge To Funny Scots

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.

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New Tour For Paul Foot

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.

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Influential Impro Guru Keith Johnstone Dies

The hugely influential improvisation pioneer Keith Johnstone has died. He was 90.

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