2011 Archives
Fri 12 August 2011
Amanda Byram to host Sky's comic talent hunt
With humiliation for the losers
12/08/2011 … Amanda Byram is to host the new Sky1 talent show in which comedians who fail to entertain will be ejected from the stage via trap doors, bungee cords or explosions.
Lickwood slams 'bitter and twisted' Copstick
Rudi's outburst over Show Me The Funny
12/08/2011 … Rudi Lickwood has branded judge Kate Copstick a ‘bitter and twisted failed stand-up’ after being kicked off ITV’s Show Me The Funny.
Book deal for Micky Flanagan
12/08/2011 … Micky Flanagan has signed a deal to write his memoirs, to be released in Christmas next year.
Briefs
12/08/2011 … Rummage inside these Briefs and there’s some pleasant surprises… but also a few things you’d probably rather not encounter.
Jeff Leach: A Leach On Society
12/08/2011 … Good stand-ups reveal something about themselves in their performance, and within seconds I learned something significant about Jeff Lynch, without him having to…
Paul Daniels: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
12/08/2011 … Over a lifetime on stage, Paul Daniels has built up the sort of fame the young bucks of Edinburgh can only dream of.
Dana Alexander
12/08/2011 … Newly arrived in Britain from Canada, Dana Alexander’s Fringe debut shows her as an adept, charming and astute comedian – warmly funny with a impishly sarcastic…