Frankie Boyle at Latitude 2022
24/07/2022 … He may have spoken about cancel culture during his set – urging the offended to have a sense of perspective and context.
2022 Archives
Sun 24 July 2022
Buckingham Palace asked Frankie Boyle to join the jubilee celebrations
Had they not heard his material?
24/07/2022 … He’s not exactly known for his pro-Monarchy material – but Frankie Boyle has revealed that he was invited to take part in the Platinum Jubilee…
© Ralf Lotys/CC BY-SA 4.0 A very good sign!
Edinburgh's Free Festival shows to offer BSL interpretation for the first time
24/07/2022 … The Laughing Horse’s Free Festival is to offer British Sign Language translation for the first time.
The Skewer goes live
Festival gig for Jon Holmes's Radio 4 show, and the rest of the week's live comedy
24/07/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Comedians to take part in the Commonwealth Games*
24/07/2022 … Comedians Darren Harriott, Russell Kane, Tom Rosenthal and Suzi Ruffell are to take to part in a celebrity version of the Commonwealth Games.
James Acaster, Jamali Maddix and Matt Forde take British Podcast Awards
...but the night belongs to Dame Deborah James,
24/07/2022 … James Acaster and Jamali Maddix took home gongs at the British podcast awards last night.
Sat 23 July 2022
The Horne Section at Latitude
Alex Horne and his band at the Suffolk festival
23/07/2022 … So the bullied becomes the bully and the cycle continues… OK, that’s overstating it.
Russell Howard at Latitude 2022
Gig review from the Suffolk festival
23/07/2022 … Life’s already pretty good if you’re spending a sunny weekend at the Latitude festival, but Russell Howard made it all the more joyful with a giddily…