Wayne Deakin: Talk Hard
25/08/2016 … Elsewhere on the Fringe, Richard Gadd is making the same kind of revelation that closes Wayne Deakin's show the foundation of his entire, award-nominated hour.
2016 Archives
Thu 25 August 2016
Flo & Joan: Victory Flaps
25/08/2016 … If Flanders & Swann and Flight Of The Conchords and Garfunkel & Oates had a six-way time-travelling gang-bang that somehow mixed all their DNA, the offspring…
Heidi Regan wins So You Think You're Funny?
25/08/2016 … DEADPAN Australian comedian Heidi Regan has won this year's £2,500 So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, staged by the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh…
Dawn French to host kids' talent show
US format Little Big Shots comes to ITV
25/08/2016 … Dawn French is to host an ITV show highlighting talented children.
Comic guilty of being drunk and disorderly
Monty Burns swore at cop who caught him peeing
25/08/2016 … Stand-up comic Gregor Burns – who uses the stage name Monty Burns – has admitted charges of being drunk and disorderly after he swore at a police…
Channel 5 goes back to the Borderline
25/08/2016 … Channel 5’s comedy Borderline is to return for a second series.
A League Of Their Own returns to the States
And three more studio series ordered
25/08/2016 … The League Of Their Own team are to go on a second American road trip.
Worst gig? When a woman rose out of her wheelchair
James Wilson-Taylor's most memorable shows
25/08/2016 … Strangest audience memberI did a gig in Swindon where a lady turned up after a hip replacement operation, high as a kite on painkillers.