2013 Archives
Tue 09 July 2013
© BBC/Fremantle Productions TV review: Count Arthur Strong
Steve Bennett on last night's opening episode
09/07/2013 … Since the ratings success of old-fashioned sitcoms such as Mrs Brown’s Boys and Miranda, the BBC has looked backwards for inspiration as it searches for its next…
Mon 08 July 2013
Compere attacked at gong show
VIDEO: Contestant takes rejection badly...
08/07/2013 … Comedian Andrew Ryan has been attacked on stage by a gong show contestant who’d been booed off.
The elite have 'stitched up' comedy
But Stewart Lee is trying to challenge it
08/07/2013 … British comedy has undergone an elitist 'stitch-up', with poorer performers being ‘priced out’ of success, Stewart Lee has claimed.
The World's End
08/07/2013 … Through Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead, Simon Pegg made his name by playing the millennial slacker, an adult trapped in a teenager’s mindset.
Editor cuts the Mustard
08/07/2013 … Comedy magazine Mustard is to cease publishing after after six years.