Tom Ballard: Enough at Soho Theatre
03/09/2019 … Tom Ballard was, for a while, a big deal in his native Australia, He was host of the topical TV show Tonightly, which he likens to The Mash Report but for two…
2019 Archives
Tue 03 September 2019
Amazon special for Alice Fraser
Australian comedian joins the company's growing roster
03/09/2019 … Australian comedian Alice Fraser is to record a stand-up special for Amazon Prime.
Guilty Feminist goes to the Proms
Special episode of Deborah Frances-White's podcast
03/09/2019 … Deborah Frances-White’s Guilty Feminist podcast is to record a special episode for the BBC as part of the Proms classical music season.
Ed and Oucho make comeback
Comic and his CBBC cactus sidekick make a YouTube return
03/09/2019 … Ed and Oucho – the CBBC presenting duo of comedian Ed Petrie and a talking cactus – has been revived after almost a decade away.
Greg Burns gets a new radio gig
03/09/2019 … Comedian and radio presenter Greg Burns is to host a new Saturday morning show across the Hits Radio Network.
Did the Pythons predict Brexit?
Their Fat Ignorant Bastards had certainly 'had enough of experts'
03/09/2019 … Did Monty Python predict Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump? Possibly not but a newly released ‘lost’ sketch shows that they were mocking an…
© Eduardo Unda-Sanzana/CC BY-SA 2.0 'I hate the way Monty Python is remembered fondly'
Eric Idle says he would rather the show annoy people
03/09/2019 … Few TV comedies are celebrated 50 years after their launch.
Mon 02 September 2019
At last... the best ever collection of these Python precursors
Unprecedented six-year quest to recover lost episodes
02/09/2019 … The most complete versions of the two sketch shows that led to Monty Python are to be released on DVD later this month.