£500 awards for up-and-coming female and non-binary comedians
07/06/2022 … Lara Ricote and Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes have each won this year’s £500 bursaries given to female and non-binary acts by London’s 99 Club.
07/06/2022 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Writer Ashley Davies offers some tips for performers
07/06/2022 … Every August, thousands of comedians, theatre productions and the rest all fight to get noticed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Who could Harriet Langley-Swindon possibly be based on?
07/06/2022 … Rosie Holt is to release a new podcast in the guise of her right-wing anti-woke ‘opinionist’.
© David Monteith-Hodge High-impact spectacular heads a new batch of shows released this week
07/06/2022 … The Wrestling is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe, once again pitching comedians against real-life grapplers.
© C4 Nina Sosanya and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell head returninng cast
07/06/2022 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of its prison comedy-drama, Screw.
...hopefully stage security is tight at The O2!
07/06/2022 … Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock have announced a co-headlining show in London this autumn.
Steve Pemberton auctions off props and scripts
06/06/2022 … Steve Pemberton is auctioning off some unique Inside No 9 props for charity.
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