2014 Archives
Wed 12 March 2014
BBC launches free comedy writing guide
12/03/2014 … The BBC has launched its first ebook for aspiring comedy writers.
'It was very polite of Graham Linehan to humour us...'
Michael Curle meets the team behind BBC4's The Walshes
12/03/2014 … It is every comic performer’s dream: a chance meeting with a comedy hero leads to a TV break and your own sitcom – that dream became reality for Irish comedy…
Would I agree not to book a female comedian?
Erm, maybe, says Will Richards
12/03/2014 … Let me pose a hypothetical scenario:I have been approached by a social club, who are aware that I have run comedy events in the past.
Tue 11 March 2014
The GQ Comedy Extravaganza
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hammersmith Apollo
11/03/2014 … He is a global comedy superstar, breaking ticket sales records across the world and earning and estimated £13million last year.
Roger's last tape
Posthumous airing for Lloyd Pack's comedy role
11/03/2014 … One of the last roles Roger Lloyd Pack recorded is to be heard later this month.
iPlayer orders new comedies
Shows for Stewart Lee, Frankie Boyle, Micky Flanagan and more
11/03/2014 … Frankie Boyle, Bob Mortimer, Micky Flanagan and Stewart Lee are to make new shows exclusively for the BBC iPlayer.