2016 Archives
Fri 29 July 2016
Thu 28 July 2016
Tape Face makes America's Got Talent semis
28/07/2016 … Tape Face has made it to the semi-finals of America’s Got Talent.
Second series for Maria Bamford's Lady Dynamite
28/07/2016 … MARIA BAMFORD'S comedy series Lady Dynamite has been renewed for a second series.
R4 orders Moore police comedy
Third series for It's A Fair Cop
28/07/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of It’s A Fair Cop from policeman-turned comedian Alfie Moore.
© BBC/Pete Dadds Comics share their parenting tips
28/07/2016 … Comedians including Vic Reeves, Katherine Ryan and Sally Phillips will be sharing their child-raising tips in a new series called Parenting For Kids.
Edinburgh 10x10: Award winners
9. Ten comics with silverware – or at least acrylic – to prove their worth
28/07/2016 … A total of 65 comedy shows this Fringe use the phrase ‘award-winning’, though most fail to mention exactly what award they’ve won.
Free Fringe flyer fight
Row as founder lays down the law on leaftleters
28/07/2016 … Free Fringe overlord Peter Buckley Hill is dictating which flyerers comedians at his Edinburgh venues can use.
John Cleese to the rescue!
Comic icon to perform at festival fundraiser
28/07/2016 … John Cleese is to give his only British stage performance of the year year to help Bristol’s Slapstick Festival of vintage comedy.