Bumps
21/02/2020 … Comedies these days are as much about the narrative and the drama than the laughs – if not sometimes more so.
Fri 21 February 2020
Intelligence
Preview of Sky's new Nick Mohammed and David Schwimmer comedy
21/02/2020 … The wait for TV to use Nick Mohammed to his full comic potential is finally over, thanks to Sky One’s new sitcom, Intelligence.
Open mic oddball Sweet Steve dies of heart failure
21/02/2020 … Sweet Steve, one of the quirkier characters on London’s open mic comedy scene, has died of heart failure The stand-up kept his background an enigma…
Greed
Movie review by Jay Richardson
21/02/2020 … Steve Coogan's collaborations with writer-director Michael Winterbottom tend to focus on brash, self-made men who forge a glamorous myth of themselves.
© C4 Harry Hill joins Wells festival
21/02/2020 … Harry Hill, Robin Ince and Angelos Epithemiou have been added to the line-up of this year’s Wells Comedy Festival.
Still Game trio plan unofficial spin-off show
Stars to tour tour with Still Gaun
21/02/2020 … Some of the stars of Still Game are to launch their own spin-off stage show on the back of the sitcom’s success.
Friday Night Dinner's 'nice grandma' dies
21/02/2020 … Frances Cuka, who played ‘nice grandma’, Nelly Buller in Friday Night Dinner, has died aged 83.
Jenny Eclair writes her guide to the menopause
Older And Wider out this summer
21/02/2020 … Jenny Eclair is writing a ‘refreshingly honest menopause survival guide’ to be released this summer.