BBC Wales orders topical panel show
Robin Morgan and Kiri Pritchard-McLean to host What Just Happened?
26/05/2023 … Robin Morgan and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are to front a new topical panel show for BBC Radio Wales.
2023 Archives
Fri 26 May 2023
© Salper88/Pixabay First they came for the mimes....
26/05/2023 … Tweets of the week First they came for the mimes, and I said nothing, which was a mistake.
© Jacqui Double A 'wake' for alternative comedy pioneer Tony Allen
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 Succession's Jesse Armstrong: 'A writers' room is not for writing in'
Series creator interviewed at the BBC Comedy Festival
26/05/2023 … They are, by most measures, truly awful, immoral human beings.
Thu 25 May 2023
John Cleese: I'm not cutting the Loretta scene from Life Of Brian show
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…
Scala Radio’s Classical Comedy Club returns
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 Sharon Horgan: There's less bullshit making comedy in the UK than the US
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.
Mike Birbiglia to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut
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.