
2013 Archives
Thu 11 April 2013


Lee Mack to host Sky panel show
Duck Quacks Don’t Echo picked up for series
11/04/2013 … Lee Mack is to host a new Sky 1 panel show about odd facts, called Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.

John Lloyd to play the Fringe
...and he talks QI, Douglas Adams and blinkered TV executies
11/04/2013 … Top comedy producer John Lloyd is to debut a solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe.

'£4million' deal for Alan Carr
C4 contract renewed until 2015
11/04/2013 … Alan Carr has signed a reputed £4million deal to stay with Channel 4 for two more years.

Acting crazy - it's the new blackface
Tim Renkow wants comics to think more about mental illness
11/04/2013 … I was at an open mic night, recently, watching a plethora of middle-class white people trying to be edgy with poorly thought-out jokes about race, rape, child abuse,…


Rich Fulcher, cult leader
In a new US sitcom in development
11/04/2013 … Mighty Boosh star Rich Fulcher is working on a new sitcom idea for the States.

David Quirk: Shaking Hands With Danger
11/04/2013 … Few comics paint themselves in a really bad light.