Channel 4 hungry for more Friday Night Dinner
23/08/2017 … Channel 4 has ordered a fifth series of Friday Night Dinner.
2017 Archives
Wed 23 August 2017
England's finest
Finalists announced for English Comedian of the Year
23/08/2017 … The finalists have been named for the 2017 English Comedian of the Year.
Tue 22 August 2017
Tiernan Douieb: Miserably Happy
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
22/08/2017 … Tiernan Douieb is as game as any comic, and he makes a decent fist of getting a mid-afternoon audience in the difficult Waverley Ba going against the odds.
© BBC How comedians come up with their Fringe shows
22/08/2017 … The Edinburgh Fringe is a vibrant melting pot of talent, a festival of comedy, theatre and art, and the root cause of many a comedian’s filing for bankruptcy…
Tom Stade: I Swear
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
22/08/2017 … Well into middle age, Tom Stade retains a rock-and-roll swagger in his feisty stand-up, even able to flick devil-horn fingers to the crowd and it not feel ironic.
Heckled by a rubber chicken
Mark Forward recalls his Unforgettable Five gigs
22/08/2017 … First gigMe and a friend had written an absolutely terrible sketch about a man trying to rent a truck, but the rental place would only rent him seven.
Never heard of it...
Paul Danan says he's making a BBC sitcom. BBC says no, he isn't
22/08/2017 … The BBC has denied that it working on a new sitcom with Celebrity Big Brother contestant Paul Danan.
Viggo Venn - The Life of Pepito
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Jay Richardson
22/08/2017 … Slight but consistently amusing, the solo debut of the Norwegian half of Zach & Viggo rests securely on Viggo Venn's playful, goofy charm.