2015 Archives
Tue 31 March 2015
Mackenzie Crook returns to live comedy
31/03/2015 … DETECTORISTS star Mackenzie Crook is to make a rare return to live performance in a fundraiser for the fire-ravaged Battersea Arts Centre.
'This isn't comedy – it's bullying'
Backlash as comic branded 'fat and smelly' on TV
31/03/2015 … A comic is at the centre of a bullying storm after calling a fellow stand-up ‘fat’ and ‘smelly’ in a televised routine.
Elaine Malcolmson: Arrangements
Glasgow Comedy Festival review by Jay Richardson
31/03/2015 … There's a striking bit in Elaine Malcolmson's hour where the Northern Irish comic takes herself out of the story she's telling about death and remembrance, to reflect…
Ronnie Corbett: 10 Of The Best
Remembering the comic at his finest
31/03/2015 … The Frost ReportRonnie Corbett was an entertainer in nightclubs when David Frost spotted him and signed him up to appear in his satirical show, which ran in 1966…
Arrested for throwing a banana at Dave Chapelle
Comic presses charges over 'racially motivated' heckle
31/03/2015 … A man has been arrested for allegedly throwing a banana peel at Dave Chappelle.
© BBC Up The Women goes down
No third series for suffragette sitcom
31/03/2015 … Jessica Hynes' suffragette sitcom Up The Women has been dropped after two series.