Jonathan Pie: The Fake News Tour
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Hexagon, Reading
17/10/2019 … Midway through a typically impassioned rant against ‘woke’ comedy, spoof news reporter Jonathan Pie rages: ‘Sometimes you want to have a laugh…
2019 Archives
Thu 17 October 2019
Comic Relief launches its own comedy club.
17/10/2019 … Comic Relief has launched its own comedy club.
Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Museum Of Comedy, London
17/10/2019 … Nick Elleray tells us that an inner rage burns inside him.
© Jaimie Gramston 'Bits of me are falling off – but it's interesting'
Billy Connolly talks about his health problems
17/10/2019 … Billy Connolly has said that he finds it ‘interesting’ that ‘bits of me are falling off’ as he ages.
© Mohamed Hassan Netflix scales back its spending on stand-up
17/10/2019 … Netflix is scaling back its investment in stand-up that has pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the top end of the business.
James Veitch gets a peach of a job
Hosting the Bafta Britannia Awards in LA
17/10/2019 … British comedian James Veitch has scored a major coup – by being asked to host this year’s Bafta Britannia Awards in Los Angeles.
Tim Key and Daisy-May Cooper to star in Witchfinder comedy
'One of the best double-acts in British comedy'
17/10/2019 … Tim Key and This Country star Daisy May Cooper are to star in a new BBC Two comedy about a witchfinder and his suspect.
© BBC Miranda celebration to be taped at the London Palladium
17/10/2019 … The BBC has revealed more details about the one-off Miranda special to mark ten years since the sitcom aired.