Julian Clary wins the Bath Plug award
Handed out by the city's comedy festival
21/04/2023 … Julian Clary has been given this year’s Bath Plug Award for outstanding services to comedy.
Fri 21 April 2023
© BBC Blackadder's pilot episode to be aired for the first time
Gold channel to broadcast 40-year-old programme
21/04/2023 … The pilot episode of Blackadder is to be broadcast for the first time.
Stuart Laws and the gig that never was...
Comedian recalls his most memorable gigs as his new special is released
21/04/2023 … Stuart Laws last night released a new stand-up special on YouTube.
He Huang: Bad Bitch
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Freedom is at the heart of He Huang’s debut stand-up hour, although her appealingly straightforward conversational approach never labours any such messages.
© ITV ITV drops The Family Pile
Sitcom lasted just six episodes
21/04/2023 … ITV has cancelled its sitcom The Family Pile after just one series.
Lewis Garnham Hit A Pigeon With His Bike
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Cycling into a pigeon isn’t the worst of Lewis Garnham’s embarrassing stories, but it’s the easiest to picture in a slightly unwieldy show title.
Prue Blake: Unfriended
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Many conversational comedians give the impression they want to be your friend.
Daisy Webb: Joy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival review
21/04/2023 … Daisy Webb’s factory setting is ‘silly’, as displayed when she giggles coyly at some of her dafter punchlines: ’No, that’s stupid!’ On…