'Avoiding it like the plague...'
07/08/2020 … Tweets of the week So what do we use as a phrase instead of: 'Avoiding it like the plague' now that we know that a lot of people don't, in fact,…
2020 Archives
Fri 07 August 2020
Nish Kumar on Trump's latest car-crash interview
07/08/2020 … Nish Kumar talks about Trump's disastrous interview with Axios' Jonathan Swan in the latest monologue on Hello America.
Comedians rally to aid their colleague Simon Clayton
£9,000 raised after circuit veteran suffered a stroke
07/08/2020 … Comedians are rallying around fellow stand-up Simon Clayton after he suffered a stroke.
Greenwich Comedy Festival WILL go ahead
Big top swapped for open-air shows
07/08/2020 … This year’s Greenwich Comedy Festival will go ahead, organisers have announced, swapping the usual big top for a more Covid-safe open air spectacle.
Welcome to the Edinburgh Fringe Time Machine...
How Chortle reviewed Dave Gorman, Johnny Vegas and the Boosh in 2000
07/08/2020 … BY CHORTLE EDITOR STEVE BENNETT I've been covering the Edinburgh Fringe for 20 years for Chortle, seeing nigh on 2,500 shows in that time - not to mention…
Win a Pleasance 'golden ticket'
Lottery to see every show at the venue in 2021
07/08/2020 … The Pleasance has launched a prize draw to win a pair of free tickets to every show it hosts at next year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
How I Love Lucy conquered America
New radio series to tell the story of sitcom phenomenon
07/08/2020 … The BBC is dramatising the story of how pioneering 1950s comedy series I Love Lucy came to conquer the American airwaves.
© BBC/Open Mike Productions BBC to repackage Live At The Apollo routines
07/08/2020 … BBC Two is to repackage some old Live At The Apollo routines for a new compilation series.