© BBC Black Ops named best TV comedy
Other Broadcast Awards for Joe Lycett, the Russell Brand investigation, and The 1% Club
08/02/2024 … Black Ops has been named best comedy at this year’s Broadcast Awards.
2024 Archives
Thu 08 February 2024
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Underbelly announces its first Fringe shows of 2024
Edinburgh gigs on sale already
08/02/2024 … Underbelly has announced its first tranche of shows for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Final Chortle Award nominees revealed
08/02/2024 … The final nominees in the 2024 Chortle Awards can now be revealed.
When Laura Whitmore bans Iain Stirling from trying his material out on her...
Comic is banished to the garden
08/02/2024 … Iain Stirling has admitted he does gigs just to himself in his garden when wife Laura Whitmore gets fed up with him testing material on him.
Russell Brand loses his bid to shut village pub
Sinister puppets of the military-industrial complex most likely orchestrating it all
08/02/2024 … It might not be the biggest issue on his mind, Russell Brand has lost his bid to turn his local pub into offices and a recording studio.
Wed 07 February 2024
Frank Skinner: 30 Years Of Dirt in the West End
Review of the comic's show at the Gielgud Theatre
07/02/2024 … To deploy the cliché ‘he makes it look effortless’ can’t do justice to how instinctive the mechanics of stand-up are to Frank Skinner.
© Ra Boe / Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Karen Gillan to play Mary Tudor in historical comedy
Guy Jenkin's Fool explores Queen's relationship with her jester
07/02/2024 … Karen Gillan is to play Mary Tudor in a new period comedy from Outnumbered co-writer Guy Jenkin.
Palm Royale trailer
Kristen Wiig's Apple TV+ comedy
07/02/2024 … Here's the trailer for Palm Royale, Apple TV+'s forthcoming comedy series starring Kristen Wiig.