Nish Kumar and Josh Widdicombe turn journalists
For a possible new show about local newspapers
11/08/2021 … Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar have taken jobs at a local newspaper for a possible new TV programme.
2021 Archives
Wed 11 August 2021
Rhod Gilbert joins DIY SOS
Comic will host a Children in Need special
11/08/2021 … Rhod Gilbert is to take over from Nick Knowles as host of BBC One’s property renovation show, DIY SOS.
I love the Fringe... you get to perform for people who love comedy
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd celebrates the return of the festival
11/08/2021 … Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, as seen on BBC Scotland's Up For It and The Comedy Underground, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new work-in-progress show,…
© Marc Brenner The Windsors: Endgame
11/08/2021 … On TV it portrays the Royal Family as a heightened soap opera; in the new stage version, The Windsors mixes in elements of Shakespearean historical drama and pantomime,…
Joe Lycett's orchestral manoeuvres in the park
Comic used to 'conduct' flowers as a 'fabulously queer' child
11/08/2021 … Joe Lycett says that he was a 'fabulously queer little creature' as a child.
© UKTV Sara Pascoe: 'I performed at Hugh Grant's birthday party'
...but as a prank on the actor, who hated her material
11/08/2021 … Sara Pascoe has revealed she was asked to perform stand-up at Hugh Grant’s birthday – but only as a cruel joke to wind him up.
Tue 10 August 2021
'Zoom gigs are terrible, no one likes them'
Rick Molland celebrates the return of live comedy... and the Fringe
10/08/2021 … Rick Molland is the resident compere at Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel comedy club.
Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang on Netflix
10/08/2021 … Phil Wang should have had his moment in the Netflix playlist a year ago, but the small matter of a global pandemic that delayed his debut full-length special…