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.
Brighton Comedy Garden presented by heycar is set to light up Preston Park this summer with a magnificent series of shows from 6-10th July.
Featuring the masterful SIMON AMSTELL, British Comedy Award winner STEWART LEE, podcast supremo ADAM BUXTON, the legendary DYLAN MORAN, multi award-winning SARA PASCOE, Taskmaster’s PHIL WANG and many more huge names performing at this year’s astounding set of open-air shows.
Richard Osman might be leaving daytime Pointless but he's sticking with House of Games, probably because it is so much fun. This week's guests are Alex Beresford, Gavin & Stacey star Mathew Horne, Martel Maxwell and comedian Chloe Petts.
Matthew Horne is best known as one of the stars of Gavin & Stacey but he recently popped up on our screens in the Gold comedy, Newark, Newark alongside Morgana Robinson in which he played a much more scruffy, older character looking for love.
The last WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards final was in October last year due to Covid but this year's prestigious final was back on schedule in the Spring. The fact that there was a quick turnaround certainly didn’t result in a shortage of new talent. If anything the 12 acts on this occasion showed that musical comedy is an increasing diverse, increasingly popular genre.
The final of the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards 2022 has taken place at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London.
12 varied acts competed for this year's crown in the final, which was hosted by Nick Horseman and featured a headline spot from Sooz Kempner.
The results are as follows:
First: Jeff Japers
Second: Talal Karkouti
Third: Simon David
Audience Favourite: Jeff Japers
Best Newcomer: The Sugarcoated Sisters
Harry Hill's musical about Tony Blair will get a month-long London run this summer.
Rosie Jones' moving storyline concludes on Casualty this evening (Saturday, April 9).
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