Sam Campbell announces first UK tour
Tickets for Taskmaster star's Wobservations on sale now
06/10/2023 … Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Taskmaster star Sam Campbell is to embark on his first UK tour.
2023 Archives
Fri 06 October 2023
'After the gig the comedians all leant away from me, as if unfunniness was contagious'
James Mullinger recalls an awful early gig in this extract from his memoir
06/10/2023 … Comedian James Mullinger has written a book – Brit Happens: Or Living The Canadian Dream – about how he moved to St John, New Brunswick, and found success…
© BBC Daisy May Cooper: My house is haunted by a topless ghost
It looks like a pair of legs in PE shorts
06/10/2023 … Daisy May Cooper is being haunted by a pair of legs in PE shorts.
Thu 05 October 2023
Livin My Best Life, Hun by London Hughes
05/10/2023 … Most followers of comedy must surely know London Hughes’s story by now, since she’s spoken about it often enough in interviews and on her socials.
Christopher Biggins, Bobby Davro and Jim Davidson to mentor would-be comics
Talent hunt for Davidson's Ustreme channel
05/10/2023 … Would-be comics are getting mentoring from the likes of Christopher Biggins and Bobby Davro as part of Jim Davidson’s new talent hunt.
© Amazon Studios Amazon set to make a UK version of LOL: Last One Laughing
Reality show featuring comedians trying not to laugh
05/10/2023 … Amazon is said to be planning a UK version of its reality format LOL: Last One Laughing, in which comedians must try to make each other laugh.
© Matt Crockett 'I will eradicate fake sausage-noshers'
Joe Lycett backs Suella Braverman's anti-refugee rhetoric
05/10/2023 … Joe Lycett has offered to personally check that anyone seeking asylum in the UK on the grounds of being gay is telling the truth.
© C4/Strawberry Blond Hugh Dennis to play a Peeping Tom
Serious role for Mock The Wek star
05/10/2023 … Hugh Dennis is moving into serious drama, starring as a married voyeur in a new Channel 4 programme.