BBC orders 20 Laugh Lessons comedy shorts
With comedians from across the UK
23/02/2021 … The BBC is to air a series of 20 sketches from up-and-coming comics from across the UK.
2021 Archives
Tue 23 February 2021
BBC orders an ASMR comedy
Zen School of Motoring from battle-rapper Ogmios
23/02/2021 … The BBC has commissioned a new ‘meditative’ comedy based on the ASMR trend.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean writes an Old Vic monologue
Gaslighting piece to be performed by Susan Wokoma
23/02/2021 … Kiri Pritchard-McLean has written a ‘funny, dark and ultimately empowering monologue about gaslighting’ for London’s Old Vic Theatre.
How being a bit disabled informs my comedy
23/02/2021 … I’ve been a comedian for nearly four years now but I’ve been making jokes about myself and my condition my whole life.
Regé-Jean Page's Bridgerton audition
As imagined by Toussaint Douglass
23/02/2021 … How did Regé-Jean Page land his breakthrough role in Bridgerton? This never-before-seen audition tape shows the process.
© Domizia Salusest Kerry Godliman joins BBC's comedy about excluded pupils
PRU shows 'a world that isn't normally seen'
23/02/2021 … Kerry Godliman is to star in a BBC comedy series about unruly pupils who have been removed from mainstream education.
© Fox/Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Dr Hibbert gets an authentic black voice
23/02/2021 … Simpsons physician Dr Hibbert is to be voiced by a black actor for the first time from this weekend.
Mon 22 February 2021
Comedy clubs could be back on May 17
Boris Johnson unveils roadmap for releasing Covid restrictions
22/02/2021 … Indoor live comedy could resume as early as May 17 under Boris Johnson’s roadmap to release lockdown.