US comedy matriarch Mitzi Shore dies at 87
Entrepreneur started the LA Comedy Store
11/04/2018 … Mitzi Shore, the founder of the Los Angeles Comedy Store who had a huge influence on a generation of comedians, has died at the age of 87.
2018 Archives
Wed 11 April 2018
When is Taskmaster back on Dave?
Broadcaster announces series 6 air date
11/04/2018 … Dave has confirmed that the next series of Taskmaster will return on Wednesday May 2 at 9pm The contestants in the sixth series are Alice Levine,…
Rob Brydon joins Bruce Springsteen-inspired film
Sally Phillips also stars in Blinded By The Light
11/04/2018 … Rob Brydon and Sally Phillips have joined the cast of a new comedy film about a British Muslim boy growing up in 1980s Luton with a love of Bruce Springsteen.
Freemasons, bouncy castles and shrunken heads...
Will Seaward recalls his Unforgettable Five gigs
11/04/2018 … Storytelling comedian Will Seaward is joining the cast of Shit-faced Shakespeare as they present The Merchant of Venice in London's Leicester Square Theatre…
Mel Giedroyc writes her first novel
The Best Things is out next summer
11/04/2018 … Mel Giedroyc is to write her first novel.
Victoria Wood to get an authorised biography
...but fans will have to wait until 2020
11/04/2018 … Victoria Wood is to be the subject of a major new official biography.
MICF – Steen Raskopoulos: Stay
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
11/04/2018 … This is a show of two halves.
MICF – Matt Okine: The Hat Game
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
11/04/2018 … Matt Okine’s story has a credibility-stretching premise that a decade ago he decided he wanted to enter the Olympics, despite limited athletic ability.