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Samantha Pressdee says she's leaving stand-up 'to find a husband with balls'
10/02/2023 … I’m leaving live comedy to find a husband (with balls)! As a single woman looking for love, I thought I would meet lots of sexy funny men on the live comedy…
Crackerjack biographer Alan Stafford on the comedy staple of kids' TV
07/02/2023 … In 1982 Ian and Janette Krankie defected from BBC to ITV, leaving Paul Ciani, producer of long-running teatime variety show Crackerjack, with a gap that needed filling.
© Tiger Aspect/ITVX Academic Dominic Lees on the growing use of tech on screen
28/01/2023 … ITVX’s Deep Fake Neighbour Wars is the breakthrough in television’s use of artificial intelligence that experts in the cultural use of deepfakes like…
According to comedy producer and tutor Simon Nicholls
28/11/2022 … With an award-winning CV that includes Titting About with French and Saunders, Ed Reardon’s Week, Miles Jupp sitcom Party’s Over, Dave Gorman’s…
Ian Hawkins bids farewell to the podcast phenomenon
14/11/2022 … It has been announced that the hit podcast, My Dad Wrote A Porno, would be ending.
© BBC/Euston Films Ryan J Brown on his new BBC horror-comedy Wreck
04/10/2022 … BBC Three horror-comedy Wreck starts on BBC Three this weekend.
The anti-war sitcom's themes are timeless, says Daryl Sparkes
19/09/2022 … MASH, stylised as M*A*S*H, is the story of a rag-tag bunch of medical misfits of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital thrown together against the horrors of…
Graham Turner on a comedy pioneer
29/08/2022 … He won’t have noticed but 20 minutes into Gavin Lilley’s set, a hearty belch tumbled down the tiers.
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