Adam Kay signs up for more children's books
The next, Kay's Marvellous Medicine, is out this autumn
16/03/2021 … Adam Kay is to write three non-fiction books for children.
2021 Archives
Tue 16 March 2021
© BBC Ellie Taylor to make a second series for Radio 4
Safe Space also features comic Robin Morgan
16/03/2021 … Ellie Taylor is to make a second series of her Radio 4 show Safe Space.
Mon 15 March 2021
One Night Stand by Simon Taylor
Review of novel about a comedian facing a paternity crisis
15/03/2021 … Simon Taylor was a young, jobbing comedian on the Melbourne stand-up scene when a one-night stand led to a paternity scare that forced him to confront a different…
Curtis Pritchard: Sorry for the jokes
Love Island star apologies for his terrible TV stand-up performance
15/03/2021 … Love Island’s Curtis Pritchard has apologised to anyone who was 'offended' by jokes he told on Channel 4's Stand Up & Deliver.
Shaun The Sheep up for an Oscar
Farmageddon nominated for best animated feature
15/03/2021 … Aardman comedy Shaun The Sheep 2: Farmageddon has been nominated for an Oscar.
The British Empire, but it's a school reunion in Cork
15/03/2021 … Irish comedian Tagh Hickey has served up a pointed satire to a certain British attitude to its colonial past.
Phil Wang finally gets to tape his Netflix special
...and at the London Palladium, too
15/03/2021 … Phil Wang is finally getting to record his first full-length Netflix special.
© Belstone Pictures A killer cast!
Comedy stars galore in comic horror movie Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
15/03/2021 … A host of British comedy talent have made a comic horror-thriller movie set to have its world festival premiere this week.