Billy Connolly to make a BBC series about Scotland
...as claims his mind is fading are rebuffed
21/08/2018 … Billy Connolly is to make a major new BBC series about his native Scotland.
2018 Archives
Tue 21 August 2018
Willis & Vere: A Serious Play About World War II
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
21/08/2018 … Spoiler alert: The Serious Play About World War II isn’t serious.
© Andy Hollingworth Tom Lucy: Reluctant Millennial
Edinburgh Fringe review by Paul Fleckney
21/08/2018 … It might seem a good thing to become a successful stand-up early on, but Tom Lucy’s second show gives an indication of how it can actually stunt a comic.
'Louis CK let everyone down... but he's still the best stand-up I've seen'
Matt Rees picks his comedy favourites
21/08/2018 … Louis CK He let down everyone recently.
Graham Dickson: Timber
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
21/08/2018 … Graham Dickson’s latest character piece is a monster story.
Jobcentre gag is an old 'un
Dave's Joke Of The Fringe isn't entirely original... again
21/08/2018 … The gag that won this year's Dave Joke Of The Fringe is at least eight years old.
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Sky makes the new Shameless
Working-class comedy in the pipeline
21/08/2018 … Sky is to make a new working-class comedy starring This Is England’s Joe Gilgun, Ripper Street’s Damien Molony and Our Girl’s Michelle Keegan.
Lenny Henry parodies Childish Gambino
This Is America becomes This Is The TV
21/08/2018 … Lenny Henry has parodied Childish Gambino‘s This Is America video.