© Stuart Hogben Chris Ramsey at Latitude 2017
14/07/2017 … The pram in the hall is said to spell the death of creativity, but for comedians a new baby can easily be a rich vein of new material, just as long as they take…
2017 Archives
Fri 14 July 2017
© Stuart Hogben 
© Stuart Hogben Seann Walsh at Latitude 2017
14/07/2017 … Seann Walsh, the king of exasperated observation comedy, isn’t sure the middle-class Latitude crowd are his kind of people.
© BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions New sitcom for Car Share's Sian Gibson
...as BBC launches a comedy bursary for Northern women
14/07/2017 … Car Share star Sian Gibson is developing a new sitcom with the BBC.
POTUS and the parsnip
14/07/2017 … Tweets of the week Trump could say parsnips are ghost carrots & Fox News would have a paranormal vegetable expert on verifying his claim.
Launch date for Nick Helm's food travel show
14/07/2017 … TV channel Dave has revealed the launch date of comedy food travelogue Eat Your Heart Out With Nick Helm.
Thu 13 July 2017
© Channel 4 Carrie Fisher up for an Emmy
Posthumous honour for her role in Catastrophe
13/07/2017 … Carrie Fisher has been posthumously nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Catastrophe.
Emergency Questions by Richard Herring
13/07/2017 … Regular listeners to Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast will require no further introduction to his ‘emergency questions’.
Miranda's Sarah Hadland joins Jason Manford cartoon
Daisy & Ollie launches in October
13/07/2017 … Miranda star Sarah Hadland has joined the cast of Jason Manford’s forthcoming kids’ cartoon Daisy & Ollie.