New job for tour supremo
Avalon's live boss moves to UTA
05/04/2018 … Global entertainment company United Talent Agency has appointed a new comedy touring agent to its London office Bjorn Wentlandt, who starts this week, will…
Thu 05 April 2018
Another year, another book
No Such Thing As A Fish podcast to pen another Book Of The Year
05/04/2018 … The No Such Thing As A Fish podcasters are to release a second Book Of The Year.
© Jeannie O’Brien Comic criticised over phoney support dog ploy
Maeve Higgins apologises after chat show confession
05/04/2018 … Maeve Higgins has been criticised after telling how she feigned a disability to get her pet dog onto a flight.
MICF: Geraldine Hickey - Plucky
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2018 … With her stand-up shows frequently addressing dark, raw and challenging personal issues, it always seemed unlikely that Geraldine Hickey would transition to morning…
Johnny English Strikes Again: Watch the first full trailer
With Rowan Atkinson and Ben Miller
05/04/2018 … The first official full trailer for Johnny English Strikes Again – the first outing for Rowan Atkinson's hapless secret agent in seven years – has…
MICF: Viggo Venn - Pepito
Melbourne comedy festival review by Steve Bennett
05/04/2018 … Norway’s Viggo Venn must be the only comedian whose tax return includes a significant deduction for cucumbers.
The Fresh Prince goes 8-Bit
Friends and Two And A Half Men, too
05/04/2018 … Some classic sitcom titles have been given a retro remake, in the style of old-school 8-bit video games.
'There are a lot of reasons to be bitter as a working-class comic'
Lee Kyle on his jealously of the middle-class safety net, and how he's trying to redress the balance
05/04/2018 … Every year, when I turn up at the Edinburgh Fringe, I see massive posters for shows by comedians that I, nor anyone else I encounter, has ever done a gig with, or…