Joe Venable on writing a Rishi Sunak musical in the space of just a month
29/06/2024 … Is there any point to this? I asked myself that a lot, when I set out to write a satirical musical about Rishi Sunak’s election campaign.
© Life, Love, and Pop-Culture/CC BY-SA 3.0 Credits include Roseanne, Veep and Arrested Development
29/06/2024 … American actor and comedian Martin Mull – whose credits include Roseanne, Veep and Arrested Development has died at the age of 1980.
Curators appeal for more memorabilia
28/06/2024 … The rich history of comedy in North East England is to be celebrated in an exhibition this summer.
© Michelle Huggleston Photography Robin Morgan says TV should be using comedy to connect to voters turned off by politics
28/06/2024 … I grew up watching topical comedy on TV – Mock The Week was the gateway to watching live stand-up comedy, but before that, I remember watching Have I Got News…
© Marc Brenner ...and it's all Rishi Sunak's fault
28/06/2024 … A planned tour of Armando Iannucci’s satire of the government’s Covid response has been axed because of the general election.
© ITV/Hartswood Films Review of Steven Moffat's timely comedy-drama with Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillen
27/06/2024 … Rows about cancel culture tend to be reductive.
Bailey has his trademark locks chopped
27/06/2024 … Bill Bailey has cut his trademark flowing locks.
Review of comic's tale of keeping her double life secret
27/06/2024 … Pretty much everyone trying to get on in the underfunded arts will be able to identify with Kirsty Mann’s situation in trying to juggle a conventional job…
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