Comedy Central orders Criminally Funny
40 hours of clips of idiotic crooks coming a cropper
12/05/2021 … Comedy Central has commissioned a clip show featuring ‘some of the most inept criminals the planet has to offer’.
Wed 12 May 2021
Comics launch spoof tech podcast for the BBC
...as Room Next Door comic Michael Spicer turns podcaster too
12/05/2021 … Comedians Olga Koch, Huge Davies and Greig Johnson are making a new spoof podcast for BBC Sounds In Tech Tech Boom, hosts Carol and Joe, with their elderly sidekick,…
Neil Innes: The Fab Fool
12/05/2021 … Writing comedy history non-fiction to get rich is like cosplaying as a slug to get laid, but there are many good reasons for devoting your life to the pursuit: celebrating…
People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan official trailer
12/05/2021 … The official trailer has been released for the People Just Do Nothing movie, Big In Japan.
The one with the Friends apartment made out of Lego
12/05/2021 … Lego fans will soon be able to create the two apartments at the heart of Friends with the release of a new construction set.
Tue 11 May 2021
Delicacy, by Katy Wix
Review of her 'memoir about cake and death'
11/05/2021 … A comedian writing about cake might sound twee, or evoke the sort of defiant hedonism that defines much of Jo Brand’s work.
On which comedy did Diane Morgan make her TV debut?
11/05/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© First Minister Of Scotland Scotland gives green light to indoor comedy
Restrictions relaxed from Monday
11/05/2021 … Indoor comedy can resume in Scotland from Monday after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a relaxation of lockdown measures.