2016 Archives
Wed 06 April 2016
Comedy Central appoints new development boss
06/04/2016 … Matt Tiller, a TV producer and sometime stand-up, has been appointed head of development for Comedy Central, starting today.
Tue 05 April 2016
© BBC Blackadder made our lives a misery
...so says, erm, Mrs Blackadder
05/04/2016 … The life of the BBC’s former chief medical officer was made a misery – thanks to Blackadder For Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis did not realise…
Tom Ballard: Boundless Plains to Share
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2016 … When I last saw Tom Ballard, he was a young twentysomething, talking affably about his own life.
Bridget Everett: Pound It
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2016 … Bridget Everett is what you get if you leave a normal flirtatious nightclub singer too close to a radioactive core.
Celia Pacquola in The Looking Glass
05/04/2016 … Celia Pacquola’s inexorable rise into the Australian comedy A-list takes another step forward.
Student award: The final 24
People's and judge's choices named
05/04/2016 … Lauren Pattison and Morgan Rees have won the People’s Choice places in the Chortle Student Comedy Award semi-finals.