Just For Laughs Comedy Store showcase
22/02/2012 … Always an odd gig, this one, with no compere and well-established acts compressing their usual 20 minutes or so into a tight eight – all the while trying to impress…
2012 Archives
Wed 22 February 2012
Tue 21 February 2012
Good for its age?
Chris Hallam wonders why some comedies date better than others
21/02/2012 … Why does some comedy date so much worse than others?Why, for example, is the groundbreaking Fifties radio series The Goon Show now almost entirely incomprehensible…
Doing comedy? There's an app for that
iPad allows mute comic to perform
21/02/2012 … An aspiring comic who lost the power of speech when he was a child has completed his first stand-up gig – using an iPad to talk.
Healthy mockery... or barely-disguised racism?
Hartley Pool on the comedy scene in Malaysia
21/02/2012 … At a nightclub in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Tyneside-educated local Kavin Jay jokes about his size and improvises well with a crowd of 350, lapsing in and out of…
Green Party dumps female comic to 'increase diversity'
Apology for ‘crass and inappropriate’ email
21/02/2012 … The Green Party has been forced to apologise for what it admits was the ‘crass and inappropriate’ way it dumped a female stand-up, saying they would rather…
Walliams makes a Stink at the BBC
Children's book adapted for screen
21/02/2012 … David Walliams' best-selling children's novel Mr Stink is to be made into a comedy-drama for BBC One.