© BBC/Wall to Wall/Stephen Perry Lee Mack speaks up about the trends in stand-up
16/07/2019 … Lee Mack has spoken out about comedians ‘whose celebrity status outweighs their comedy’.
...but James Acaster misses out
16/07/2019 … Tim Minchin and Hannah Gadsby have won two of the top accolades for live performance in Australia.
European premiere for his Personal History Of David Copperfield
16/07/2019 … Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History Of David Copperfield is to open this year’s London Film Festival, in what will be its European premiere.
In this clip from Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
15/07/2019 … Ricky Gervais and Jerry Seinfeld debate whether they should laugh at strangers' terrible jokes in a new clip from Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
The man behind Paul Whicker the Tall Vicar and Rude Kid
15/07/2019 … Jim Brownlow, one of the founders of Viz Magazine, has died.
So says Loyiso Gola (who just happens to be from there)
15/07/2019 … South Africa is where the best comedy will come from in the next ten years.
© C4 Writers planning for Matt Berry's Victorian comedy to be renewed
15/07/2019 … Work has begun on a second series of Matt Berry's Victorian cop comedy Year of the Rabbit.
At Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival
15/07/2019 … Jim Jefferies is to be named stand-up comedian of the year at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival later this month.
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