Rahul Kohli: Newcastle Brown Male
26/08/2016 … Rahul Kohli discusses big issues – often rather superficially, as it turns out – but with an affable, spirited delivery that would get through to the kind of…
Fri 26 August 2016
So You Think You're Funny 2016 final
26/08/2016 … I’m reluctant to mention the fact that seven of the nine finalists in last night’s So You Think You’re Funny? new act final were women, because…
Doing mainstream character comedy at the Fringe
26/08/2016 … British comedy has produced an array of brilliant and memorable comedy characters.
Will Franken loses it with a heckler
26/08/2016 … • Comedian Will Mars wasn’t happy with his two-star Chortle review this Fringe, he decided he’d just award himself five stars, attribute them to made-up website…
'Reality TV is a Geordie f***ing an octopus'
Frankie Boyle at the Edinburgh TV Festival
26/08/2016 … TV comedy is too bland – and needs quotas to ensure more diversity, Frankie Boyle has said.
Inbetweeners team reunite
For BBC comedy about 1980s double-glazing salesmen
26/08/2016 … Inbetweeners stars Joe Thomas and James Buckley are to reunite with the co-creator of the youth TV hit for a new BBC Two comedy.
V&A acquires Tommy Cooper archive
26/08/2016 … The Victoria and Albert Museum has acquired a vast archive of Tommy Cooper memorabilia – but not a single fez.
Radio 4 unveils raft of new comedies
With Herring, Pascoe, Berry & more...
26/08/2016 … Radio 4 has announces a raft of new comedy shows featuring names such as Matt Berry, Meera Syal, Richard Herring, Sara Pascoe and Rhys James.