© Gareth James/CC BY-SA 2.0 Machynlleth Comedy Festival cancelled
Coronavirus lockdown claims popular event
17/03/2020 … The Machynlleth Comedy Festival has been cancelled because of the ongoing coronavirus.
2020 Archives
Tue 17 March 2020
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'I can take apart and put together a 9mm pistol in under seven seconds'
Mel and Sue on their new Sky comedy, Hitmen
17/03/2020 … In Sky’s new comedy, Hitmen, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc play misfits Fran and Jamie who accidentally stumbled into a career in contract killing.
Mon 16 March 2020
Sketch Off! Final 2020
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Square Theatre, London
16/03/2020 … For a sketch comedy competition, there weren’t a lot of sketch groups.
Comedy is cancelled
No10 tells everyone to avoid pubs, clubs and theatres
16/03/2020 … Boris Johnson has effectively cancelled all live comedy for the foreseeable future by calling for an end to ‘all unnecessary social contact’ to combat…
Community comes to Netflix
...which also announces air date for last Schitt's Creek series
16/03/2020 … All six seasons of Community are coming to Netflix, the streaming giant has announced.
Tom Rosenthal pulls the rest of his tour
Spate of new coronavirus cancellations
16/03/2020 … Tom Rosenthal has become the latest comedian to pull his tour dates because of the coronavirus.
Now it's Mel and LOU
Comic Sanders joins Giedroyc’s panel show
16/03/2020 … Lou Sanders is to be the sidekick on Mel Giedroyc’s new entertainment show Unforgivable, the Dave channel has announced.
No go in Glasgow
Biggest shows of the festival called off
16/03/2020 … The biggest shows at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival have been pulled as the coronavirus lockdown tightens.