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The best TV and radio comedy of the week
09/04/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.
2017 Archives
Sun 09 April 2017
First trailer for I'm Dying Up Here
Showtime series about 1970s stand-up scene
09/04/2017 … The first trailer has been released for I'm Dying Up Here, a new series set in the Los Angeles comedy scene of the 1970s.
How Blackadder was almost set in the Russian Revolution
...with Rik Mayall as Rasputin
09/04/2017 … Blackadder could have returned with a series set at the time of the Russian Revolution, star Rowan Atkinson has revealed.
Tom Ballard: Problematic
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
09/04/2017 … This year Tom Ballard is performing his comedy festival show from inside a bubble.
Watch Louis CK on Saturday Night Live
09/04/2017 … When he last hosted Saturday Night Live, Louis CK caused some upset with his material about child molesters.
Claire Hooper: Familiar
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
09/04/2017 … When comedy was dubbed ‘the new rock and roll’ all those years ago, it wasn’t with comedians like Claire Hooper in mind.
Don Rickles taught us that passion beats polish
Russell Hicks on the comedian's legacy
09/04/2017 … Don Rickles may be the most posthumously misunderstood comic in the history of stand-up.
Sam Taunton: Taunts Down For What
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
09/04/2017 … Comedy is still dominated by affable white men telling jovial stories of their everyday life.