© Raffi Asdourian/CC BY-SA 2.0 Channel 4 orders a satirical comedy horror series
19/08/2019 … Channel 4 has commissioned a satirical comedy-horror series from film-maker Ben Wheatley.
2019 Archives
Mon 19 August 2019
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Adam Hills is back on Australian TV
As music quiz Spicks and Specks returns
19/08/2019 … Adam Hills is returning to Australian TV.
Olaf Falafel wins Joke of the Fringe
With a cheesy cauliflower line
19/08/2019 … Olaf Falafel has won this year’s joke of the Fringe.
Sun 18 August 2019
Amused Moose picks its Magnificent 7
Winner will get a two-week New York run
18/08/2019 … Seven comedians have been nominated for this year’s Amused Moose Comedy Award for the best Edinburgh Fringe show from ‘talent on the cusp of fame’.
Rory O Hanlon: Confidence
Edinburgh Fringe review by Alex Bruce
18/08/2019 … Another day, another comedian exhuming the same exhausted comic corpses.
Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
18/08/2019 … Should any explanation be needed, Aaron Simmonds has taken a derogatory term used for black or Asian people who are considered ‘white on the inside’…
What's the best museum you've ever been to?
One of the more erudite of Richard Herring's Emergency Questions
18/08/2019 … Derwent Pencil Museum: Absolute banger.
Fleabag's back on stage
The best of the week's live comedy
18/08/2019 … The week's best live comedy.