Melbourne Comedy Festival spurns Barry Humphries
Main award will no longer carry his name after trans row
15/04/2019 … The Melbourne comedy festival has snubbed Barry Humphries by renaming the annual prize awarded in his honour.
2019 Archives
Mon 15 April 2019
New stand-up show for digital radio
Oxford's Jericho Comedy Club to air on UnionJack
15/04/2019 … Digital radio station Union Jack is to air a weekly stand-up show.
Filming starts on Scarborough
BBC One's new comedy with Jason Manford
15/04/2019 … Filming has begun today on BBC One’s new comedy Scarborough.
Sun 14 April 2019
Michael Keaton plays Julian Assange
14/04/2019 … Michael Keaton made an appearance on Saturday Night Live last night – as Julian Assange.
Friends with benefits...
A-listers' fundraising gigs lead this week's best live comedy
14/04/2019 … It's a relatively quiet week for new and one-off live comedy, but scores of stand-up tours are in full flow around the country.
When Donald Trump met Andy Warhol
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
14/04/2019 … The comedy week ahead on TV and radio Sunday April 14 8 OUT OF 10 CATS: Johnny Vegas, Alex Brooker, Anna Richardson and Sophie Duker join Jimmy Carr,…
Cracking the Frank Sidebottom code
...but it took Britain's top spooks to do it
14/04/2019 … Britain’s top codebreakers were called in to decipher secret messages left by Frank Sidebottom.
Danielle Walker: Myths and Legends
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
14/04/2019 … The way Danielle Walker portrays it, her native Townsville could be as strange and magical place as Narnia – and occupied by just as fantastical a collection…