Joe Kent-Walter's Australia diary: Sydney
The adventures of 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award winner down under
19/10/2023 … Goodbye Australia! What a whirlwind.
2023 Archives
Thu 19 October 2023
© BBC Studios Diane Morgan starts filming series 3 of Mandy
As Paul Ready and Coronation Street legend Beverley Callard join cast
19/10/2023 … Filming has started on the third series of Diane Morgan’s Mandy with the comedian’s disinterested alter-ego embarking on a new catalogue of short-lived,…
Wed 18 October 2023
'It looked like an emu eating a coconut...’
Jim Jefferies tells of the agony of passing a kidney stone
18/10/2023 … Jim Jefferies has revealed how he performed a stand-up show despite being doped up on morphine to combat an agonising kidney stone.
Alison Spittle writes her second play
Glacier - about wild swimming at Christmas - to open in December
18/10/2023 … Alison Spittle has written her second play, about three women going wild swimming.
© BBC Lenny Rush joins Children in Need line-up
Alongside Jason Manford and Chris Ramsey
18/10/2023 … Am I Being Unreasonable? star Lenny Rush has joined the presenting team of BBC Children in Need.
© Channel 4 / Alistair Heap Stars sign up for C4's darkly comic zombie series Generation Z
Sue Johnston, Anita Dobson, Robert Lindsay, and Johnny Vegas
18/10/2023 … Sue Johnston, Anita Dobson, Robert Lindsay, and Johnny Vegas are to star in Channel 4’s new darkly comic zombie apocalypse series Generation Z,…
Tim Minchin celebrates 50 years of the Sydney Opera House
...with his new song Play It Safe
18/10/2023 … Tim Minchin has released as new satirical clip to celebrate Sydney Opera House's 50th anniversary.
How Bobby Mair took revenge on a heckler... ten years on
18/10/2023 … Bobby Mair has taken brilliant revenge on a heckler – ten years after the event.