Who are these comedians getting cancelled?
...and what is it they can't say, asks Robin Ince
25/05/2021 … One of the great tricks of the powerful is to hold all the power while also playing the part of the oppressed.
2021 Archives
Tue 25 May 2021
Comedians return to Celebrity Gogglebox
25/05/2021 … Iain Stirling and his presenter wife Laura Whitmore; Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aléshé, and Gyles Brandreth & Maureen Lipman are all…
Mon 24 May 2021
© BBC Inside No 9: Lip Service
24/05/2021 … One of the more subdued entries in the Inside No 9 canon, Lip Service takes place in a gloomy and uninviting hotel room where Felix, a sad data entry manager, is…
Third season for A Black Lady Sketch Show
HBO renews Robin Thede's series
24/05/2021 … HBO has commissioned a third season of A Black Lady Sketch Show.
Sophie Willan wins a Bafta for Alma's Not Normal
Stand-up scoops comedy writing gong
24/05/2021 … Sophie Willian has won a Bafta.
© MarkWSutton The History of Stand-Up by Wayne Federman
24/05/2021 … In 2015, showbiz historian Kilph Nesteroff wrote The Comedians, a near-definitive and thoroughly entertaining account of the evolution of American comedy, from…
© Sam Roberts Comedy livestreamed...
Watch Sandi Toksvig perform stand-up in a river
24/05/2021 … We’ve heard of streaming comedy, but this is ridiculous.
Sadia Azmat writes her memoirs as a 'horny Muslim'
24/05/2021 … Sadia Azmat is to publish Sex Bomb, a ‘conversation-starting’ memoir about being a sexually liberated, hijab-wearing Muslim woman.