2018 Archives
Fri 28 September 2018
Not just 'upper-class wits'
28/09/2018 … Above my mantlepiece hangs a frame containing the Holy Quadrality Of Double Acts: Cook & Moore, Morecambe & Wise, Reeves & Mortimer, and Fry & Laurie.
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Win one of five copies of new Richard Briers biography
28/09/2018 … A major biography of Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles star Richard Briers was published yesterday – and we have five copies to give away.
David Cross: Oh Come On
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Square Theatre, London
28/09/2018 … A man’s vote is between himself and the ballot box, but there’s something about David Cross that gives just the slightest hint that he mat not be a Donald…
Ricky Gervais's laugh - the dance remix
Track played out on Jimmy Fallon's show
28/09/2018 … Ricky Gervais may vie with Jimmy Carr for the title of ‘comedy’s most annoying laugh’ – but that hasn’t stopped one fan from converting it into a dance…
Thu 27 September 2018
Morecambe and Wise producer Ernest Maxin dies at 95
He choreographed some of Eric & Ern's most famous sketches
27/09/2018 … Veteran comedy producer Ernest Maxin – who helped create some of Morecambe & Wise’s most famous sketches – has died at the age of 95.
Mike Epps
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hackney Empire
27/09/2018 … This is Mike Epps’s first visit to London, but it’s clear from the rapturous reception he receives from the Hackney Empire that his reputation, forged…
BDSM food porn star
27/09/2018 … Food fetish and actual fetish are brought together in this new sketch from America's Comedy Central.