2013 Archives
Sat 24 August 2013
When did it become better to be blessed and lazy than a talentless grafter
Benny Davis takes issue with a common attitude in comedy
24/08/2013 … Did anyone else have this thing at school among their friends? If someone got good marks, you’d say, ‘Yeah but he’s not really that smart, he just studies…
Martin Freeman to pull a Little Cracker
24/08/2013 … MARTIN FREEMAN is to make a Little Crackers film for Sky.
Award-winning pussy
Adrienne Truscott takes Malcolm Hardee title
24/08/2013 … Adult cabaret act turned outrageous stand-up Adrienne Truscott has won this year’s Malcolm Hardee award for comic originality.
Bridget Christie wins Edinburgh award
24/08/2013 … Bridget Christie has won the award for the best comedy show on the Edinburgh Fringe.
Fri 23 August 2013
It's the Wed-inburgh Fringe
23/08/2013 … WTF: Weekly Trivia File • ‘Comedy isn't tragedy plus time, it's rage plus structure,’ Josh Whedon.
© BBC Badults gets a second series
23/08/2013 … Badults – the BBC Three sitcom created by sketch trio Pappy’s – has been recommissioned for a second series, before the first has ended.
Vicious will return
...as will The Job Lot, says ITV boss
23/08/2013 … ITV sitcoms Vicious and The Job Lot will both return for second series.