'One of the definitive documents of the trans experience in stand-up'
20/12/2024 … Reviewer Tim Harding gives a rundown of the comedy he's been watching in London in the last two weeks.
Fri 20 December 2024
Hal Cruttenden announces 2025 tour
20/12/2024 … Hal Cruttenden has announced a 33-date tour for 2025, kicking off in Lancaster on September 5.
Applications open for Best In Class 2025
Helping working-class comics play the Edinburgh Fringe
20/12/2024 … Applications have opened for next year’s Best in Class scheme to help working-class comics play the Edinburgh Fringe.
© BBC/So Television/PA Media James Corden and Ruth Jones write Gavin & Stacey book
Promising 'fresh insight' into how it came to be
20/12/2024 … James Corden and Ruth Jones are writing the story of Gavin and Stacey, for publication next year.
© Madame Tussauds Fame waxes and wanes for John Bishop
Comic finds his Madame Tussauds figure was melted down
20/12/2024 … John Bishop has been given a hard lesson in the fragility of frame – when he discovered that Madam Tussauds had melted down his waxwork.
Thu 19 December 2024
Gavin & Stacey's success is 'a lesson in patience’
James Corden and Ruth Jones speak at preview screening
19/12/2024 … James Corden says the success of Gavin & Stacey has been ‘a lesson in patience’ in a media landscape obsessed with speed and the next big thing.
The King's pronouns
From Sam Nicoresti's Wokeflake
19/12/2024 … Sam Nicoresti talks about the King’s pronouns in this clip from their new stand-up special Wokeflake.
Radio 4 renews The Naked Week
Andrew Hunter Murray's satirical show to return
19/12/2024 … Radio 4’s new Friday Night comedy The Naked Week has been commissioned for a second series.