
2013 Archives
Fri 18 October 2013


Abandoman: Moonrock Boombox
18/10/2013 … Abandoman’s improvised rap shtick has become pretty well known on the comedy circuit, but the task of sustaining what’s a mighty impressive talent into a varied…

Josh Widdicombe: Incidentally...
18/10/2013 … It must be exhausting being Josh Widdicombe, being exasperated to the point of incredulity at every little thing in his life.

Go to bed with Jack Whitehall
18/10/2013 … •‘If people watch Dave more than three times a week I don’t want them coming to my show.

I'm feeling like Bond, on a mission with the cops on my tail
Another extract from Phil Kay's book The Wholly Viable
18/10/2013 … Late one night early in the first week of the Edinburgh Festival.

Did US shutdown hit Minchin too?
Tim cancels American festival appearance
18/10/2013 … Tim Minchin has been forced to cancel his US appearance this weekend, amid fears he has been another victim of the American government shutdown.

Dom Joly's run-in with PM's bodyguards
18/10/2013 … Dom Joly has revealed that he was pounced on by Special Branch bodyguards when he tried to prank David Cameron.

Leave the space monkey jokes to the pros!
Alan Varley fears gags falling into the wrong hands
18/10/2013 … As is now common knowledge, at half-time during Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier against Poland, England manager Roy Hodgson told his players a joke about an astronaut…