Simon Amstell at Latitude 2021
24/07/2021 … Previewing his autumn tour at Latitude, Simon Amstell returns to the big themes of shame, ego and how to be free of these toxic twins that have long defined his…
2021 Archives
Sat 24 July 2021
Fri 23 July 2021
C4 pilots new black-led comedy
23/07/2021 … Channel 4 is piloting a new comedy about four young black British friends in early adulthood.
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Party's Over
23/07/2021 … The pilot episode of Party’s Over first aired in August 2019, less than a month after Theresa May left Downing Street, giving it a frisson of topicality.
Thu 22 July 2021
Ealing Comedy Festival 2021 opening gala
22/07/2021 … It just scraped in past the preposterously nicknamed ‘Freedom Day’ in any case, but even so the Ealing Comedy Festival seems as Covid-safe as you like,…
Women in Comedy Festival to return
Over 11 days in Manchester this October
22/07/2021 … The Women in Comedy Festival will return to Manchester in October, organisers have announced.
© Matt Crockett Pleasance and Gilded Balloon unveil their Fringe programmes
Mark Watson, Joe Thomas and more...
22/07/2021 … The Pleasance and Gilded Balloon have become the latest major Edinburgh Fringe players today to announce their August programme.
© c4 Mo Gilligan gives others a leg-up
Comic gives breaks to comics, writers and production crew on his C4 show
22/07/2021 … Mo Gilligan is giving new talent a break in the new series of The Lateish Show, both on-screen and off.
Cameras roll on the second series of The Other One
Holly Walsh's sitcom to return
22/07/2021 … Filming has started on the second series of BBC One comedy The Other One.