BBC launches New Comedy Award 2018
09/04/2018 … Entries have opened for this year’s BBC New Comedy Award, which will again be running on Radio 4.
Mon 09 April 2018
Les Dennis to play a washed-up comic
In a new play alongside Inbetweener Blake Harriso
09/04/2018 … Les Dennis is to star in a new play about a washed-up comedy star.
Second book for Susan Calman
...as she lands a BBC podcast, too
09/04/2018 … Susan Calman has written a second book, with the aim of spreading happiness.
MICF: Tim Key - Megadate
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
09/04/2018 … Tim Key has previously used a double-bed and a full bath as centrepieces for his stand-up shows, but in Megadate he has nothing more ambitious than a change of clothes…
First look at Fighting With My Family
Stephen Merchant's film with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
09/04/2018 … Here's the first footage of Fighting With My Family, the film about British WWE wrestler Paige written and directed by Stephen Merchant.
Worzel Gummidge set for a TV comeback
With Mackenze Crook as the head-swapping scarecrow
09/04/2018 … Worzel Gummidge is set to make a TV comeback, thanks to Mackenzie Crook.
MICF - Danielle Walker: Bush Rat
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
09/04/2018 … Danielle Walker is a winsome performer, who paints an appealingly quirky picture of isolated rural life in north Queensland, complete with the peculiar cast of characters…
MICF: Wil Anderson – Wilegal
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
09/04/2018 … After 21 festival shows on the bounce, Wil Anderson might have wondered what else he had to talk about.