Comics up for 2024 BBC Audio Drama Awards
13/02/2024 … Jonathan Pie, Janey Godley, Olga Koch and Sarah Keyworth are in line for a BBC Audio Drama Award this year.
2024 Archives
Tue 13 February 2024
© Alex Lake Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle
Review of the curmudgeonly comedian's latest tour
13/02/2024 … Ostensibly, this show gets its title from the fact Romesh Ranganathan has an issue with the ever-grafting hustle culture, instead believing everybody should half-arse…
© BBC 'When you’re delving into big issues, it’s much more powerful to do so through comedy'
Daniel Lawrence Taylor on his new BBC show, Boarders
13/02/2024 … BBC Three’s new comedy-drama Boarders follows the lives of five talented black inner-city teenagers navigating their way through the British public school…
Audience members back Paul Currie in antisemitism storm
Police investigation after Jewish punters felt intimidated... but comic has some support
13/02/2024 … Audience members at the show in which Paul Currie clashed with an Israeli man have defended the comedian against allegations he incited an antisemitic rant.
Boarders trailer
13/02/2024 … BBC Three has released this trailer for its new comedy-drama, Boarders.
What was Bernie’s surname in Weekend at Bernie’s?
13/02/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© G&S TV Productions Gavin & Stacey 'to return'
Another Christmas special reportedly in the works
13/02/2024 … Gavin & Stacey is to return for another BBC One Christmas Special, it has been reported.
Simon Fanshawe becomes rector of the University of Edinburgh
Gay rights activist and former Perrier winner
13/02/2024 … Comedian, activist and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe has become rector of the University of Edinburgh following an uncontested election.