Meet Birmingham's 2024 breaking talents
Comedy festival finalists announced
04/09/2024 … The line-up has been announced for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award.
2024 Archives
Wed 04 September 2024
The Comedy Wars
Kim Wells on alternative versus old-style comedy
04/09/2024 … Kim Wells, compere and promoter of Earth Exchange Cabaret, one of the earliest alternative comedy venues, documents a heated dispute between Tony Allen, one of the…
John Tothill on Comedy Central Live
On being blackmailed by a nine-year-old
04/09/2024 … John Tothill talks about being a bad teacher in this new Comedy Central stand-up.
Tue 03 September 2024
Alma's Not Normal comes to an end
As Sophie Willan writes about witch trials instead
03/09/2024 … Alma's Not Normal will end with its upcoming second series, creator Sophie Willan has revealed.
© G&S TV Productions Filming starts on Gavin & Stacey finale
James Corden confirms the news
03/09/2024 … Filming has started on the final ever episode of Gavin and Stacey.
Tim Minchin: I want to write Jesus Christ Superstar 2: The Aftermath.
Comic jokes about his next musical project
03/09/2024 … Tim Minchin has joked that he’d like to write a sequel to Jesus Christ Superstar, all about the aftermath of the gospels.
What was Buster Keaton’s nickname?
03/09/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© Matt Crockett Phil Wang: Wang In There, Baby! on Netflix
Review of his stand-up special
03/09/2024 … ‘The main difference between white people and Chinese people…’ says Phil Wang straight out of the gate, not pausing even to say ‘hello’…