© Jacqui Double Friends to celebrate comic's life as his health fails
26/05/2023 … Friends of alternative comedy pioneer Tony Allen are organising a farewell gig for him after he was diagnosed with cancer.
© Patrick Olner Series creator interviewed at the BBC Comedy Festival
26/05/2023 … They are, by most measures, truly awful, immoral human beings.
Comic says the press misrepresented him
25/05/2023 … John Cleese has denied reports that the ‘Loretta’ scene is going to be cut from the stage version of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian for fear it’s…
With Gyles Brandreth, Josie Long, Suzi Ruffell and Nina Wadia
25/05/2023 … Scala Radio’s Classical Comedy Club is returning for a second series.
© Patrick Olner Bad Sisters writer speaks at the BBC comedy festival
25/05/2023 … Sharon Horgan says there’s less ‘bullshit’ involved in making comedy in the UK compared to America.
Ahead of a West End run of The Old Man & The Pool
25/05/2023 … Mike Birbiglia is to bring his latest one-man show The Old Man & The Pool to the Edinburgh Fringe and the West End, it has been announced.
Review of the opening night gig at the Glee, Cardiff
25/05/2023 … It’s surely not the most conducive of audiences, packed with industry types notoriously reticent when it comes to laughing out loud.
25/05/2023 … BBC Comedy has launched a second regional partnership scheme, this time in Wales, to encourage local talent.
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