Crumbling concrete: More theatres close
06/09/2023 … Three more theatres have closed their doors amid fears crumbling concrete may pose a danger to audiences.
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams
05/09/2023 … After Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams died in 2001 at the unfairly young age of 49, his family donated 67 boxes of his archives –…
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget trailer
Sequel coming to Netflix this December
05/09/2023 … Netflix has released the trailer for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
© Gavin Bond Hugh Bonneville to host Slapstick festival gala
Screening of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Buster Keaton classics
05/09/2023 … Hugh Bonneville is to host a gala evening of silent film comedies at next year’s Slapstick festival, organisers have announced.
© BBC Who was Sybill always on the phone to in Fawlty Towers?
05/09/2023 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
A guy booked me to perform stand-up just for him and his date
Esther Manito's most memorable gigs
05/09/2023 … Esther Manito kicks off a UK tour of her latest show, Hell Hath No Fury, in Southend on Friday, following a run at the Soho Theatre in London last month.
The best reviewed comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe? Buffy Revamped
Ed Byrne's Tragedy Plus Time is the best new show
05/09/2023 … A one-man run-through of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer canon was the best-reviewed comedy show of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
© Capital Radio Joel Dommett on harvesting liquid gold
Comic speaks about his wife's pregnancy ahead of the NTAs
05/09/2023 … Joel Dommett says he probably won’t be going to the National Television Awards after-party tonight as his wife Hannah Cooper is heavily pregnant.