Comedian and singer Charlie Baker has been announced as the titular role in Tony [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]. Baker has exercised his comedy chops on shows The Last Leg, Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, The Great British Bake-Off: An Extra Slice, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live, The Dog Ate My Homework and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala.
DMs Are Open is the new showcase for the public’s comedy writing talents on Radio 4 and 4 Extra. This debut six-part series will feature a mixture of sketches, one liners, and voice notes written by listeners. Hosts Athena Kugblenu [Mock The Week, The News Quiz] and Ali Official [social media content creator and star of Muzlamic] will be joined by a cast of comedians who bring to life gags submitted by contributors.
Quickfire comedian Lee Mack is on a bit of a roll at the moment. Over on BBC One he is co-host of Freeze The Fear With Wim Hof with Holly Willoughby and it looks like he has another hit on his hands with primetime quiz show The 1% Club.
Have you ever wondered how clever you are? Do you think you might be in the top 50% of the country? The top 10% Or even the top 1%? This is your chance to find out as Mack hosts the brand new quiz.
Following the multiple award-winning first series, which was met with huge critical and audience acclaim, Alma’s Not Normal is set to return to BBC Two for a second series, it was announced today.
Julia McKenzie, currently Creative Director at BBC Studios Audio, has been announced as the new Radio 4 Comedy and Entertainment Commissioner. She will start this new position in the summer.
The role will see McKenzie commission top pitches from both independent and BBC in-house programme makers, continuing Radio 4’s unrivalled array of sketch, panel, quiz shows, sitcoms and more.
Following a successful pilot a full series of sideways family sitcom Here We Go launches on BBC One at 8.30pm on Friday 29th April and will also be available as a box set on BBC iPlayer. It stars Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Jim Howick and Tom Basden and is written by Tom Basden.
Interview with Jim Howick
A number of classic and cult comedies are to be broadcast on Radio 4 Extra as part of a season exploring the legacy of the 1990s, including early shows from Stewart Lee and Richard Herring and The League of Gentlemen.
As part of What Really Happened in the Nineties?, from May 7 - 13 each night at 11pm, Comedy Club host Jon Holmes goes retro to remind us how each series came about and to assess their comedic influence and legacy, as many later moved to TV.
The makers of Britain's Got Talent have come under fire after it has emerged that comedian Axel Blake, who bagged a Golden Buzzer on Sunday night, has already had a stand-up special on Amazon's Prime Video platform.
Axel Blake: I'm Not Gonna Lie, was filmed at the Indigo2 in London. It is not currently available, but shows that Blake is not exactly a new talent.
There can’t be too many comedy touring shows this year revolving around the throwing of a bread roll. Nish Kumar’s Your Power, Your Control strongly features that time he was on the receiving end of a baked-product hurling at a charity gig.
Paul McCaffrey is back with a properly funny stand-up show in which he struggles to get to grips with being spied on by the Chinese through his new phone, married life and how he ruined his honeymoon, idiotic self-help books that keep getting recommended to him, and setting fire to his oven gloves. McCaffrey is an absolute lemon, but very funny.
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