Audible, a world-wide leader in spoken-word entertainment, has announced a global deal with comedian, actor and presenter, Jack Whitehall (Bad Education, Jungle Cruise, Travels with My Father) for a new Audible Original comedy series, Jack Whitehall’s Safe S
The 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has announced an extended shortlist of twelve titles in contention for this year’s award, in recognition of the exceptionally strong list of submissions it has received. The twelve books on this year’s list highlight the funniest novels of the past twelve months, which best evoke the Wodehouse spirit of witty characters and perfectly-timed comic phrases.
Two brand new digital comedy series from BBC Studios and Baby Cow Productions have been announced, showcasing stinging satire from top-drawer TV talent including Lucy Pearman, Tim Key, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and comedy duo Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen, featuring a host of appearances from Rufus Sewell, Natalie Cassidy, Natasia Demetriou and more.
Subscription social platform OnlyFans has announced the launch of its Creative Fund: Comedy Edition. This version of the Creative Fund, will see comedians from the UK and Ireland compete for the opportunity to win a total of £100,000 and to have their talents judged by London Hughes (pictured), Jamali Maddix and Mae Martin.
Preview links for upcoming TV programmes often ping in with requests not to reveal spoilers these days but Am I Being Unreasonable? must break some kind of record. Previewers are requested not to reveal "that someone was xxx - that xxx was xxx - that xxx has xxx - that xxx is a xxx - that xxx has xxx - that xxx is an xxx - that xxx is embroiled in an xxx"
Kevin Bridges has been presented with the first Platinum Artist Award from the SEC after taking the crown as the artist who has played the most shows ever at SEC venues. The comedian’s 16-night sell-out shows at the OVO Hydro for his “Overdue Catch Up” tour bring the comedy legend’s total performances to sixty-three and kicks off a new awards programme from the SEC, recognising the best in live entertainment.
Mock the Week will now begin recording next Wednesday, 21st September, with transmission on Friday 23rd September. This will be the last series of the long-running comedy panel show.
There will now be five regular episodes followed by two specials looking back over the seventeen years the series has been running.
Reece Shearsmih has told Richard Herring about the time he met Sir Christopher Lee and what Bernie Clifton thought of Inside No 9 episode Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room in the latest Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre podcast just released.
Shearsmith was speaking to promote the new movie See How They Run, a murder mystery which is currently number one at the box office.
The Graham Norton Show is set to return to BBC One on Friday, September 30 at 10.40pm.
When I saw Dylan Moran at the Apollo in London recently it was clear that despite rarely appearing on TV these days he still had a massive devoted following. Thanks, I'm guessing, to the enduring popularity of his uber-grumpy character Bernard Black in Black Books. So it's good to see Moran back on the box in a brand new comedy, Stuck.
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