© BBC/Merman Motherland Series 2
07/10/2019 … It’s a welcome return for Motherland, the comedy that does for parenthood what The Thick Of It did for politics – revealing in ugly detail the stresses…
2019 Archives
Mon 07 October 2019
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Mo Gilligan: Momentum
07/10/2019 … Some comedians set themselves away from the norm, others want to show they are just like you.
BBC Studios comedy chief to join Netflix
Chris Sussman heads for streaming giant, say reports
07/10/2019 … The former head of BBC Studios’ comedy unit is set to join Netflix.
Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2019
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Glee comedy club
07/10/2019 … It has to be the least impressive trophy in comedy.
Appealing to the youth
Josh Widdicombe has an audience member aged just one
07/10/2019 … If broadcasters are obsessed with comedians with youth, Josh Widdicombe could be just what they need.
Comics talk mental health for Union Jack radio
22 shorts aimed at suicide prevention
07/10/2019 … Comedians have discussed mental health for a new series of 22 short features to air on digital radio station Union Jack.
American comic Rip Taylor dies at 84
07/10/2019 … Flamboyant American prop comic Rip Taylor has died at the age of 84.
© Jaimie Gramston Billy Connolly: I sleep like a wild animal
Comic speaks honestly about his Parkinson's
07/10/2019 … Billy Connolly has revealed that he can no longer sleep in the same bed as wife Pamela Stephenson because of his Parkinson’s disease 'I sleep like a…