Harry & Paul add an extra date
HARRY ENFIELD and Paul Whitehouse have added a second London date to their Legends tour marking 25 years of their comedy partnership. They will now play the Hammersmith Apollo on both November 15 and 16. Tickets for all dates went on sale at 9am today. Schedule and ticket links.
THE acclaimed second series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's Inside No 9 has been given a DVD release date. BBC Worldwide are putting out all the episodes of the Chortle-award winning show, plus a 'behind-the-scenes' feature, on May 4. Preorder.
JOHN OLIVER has won a Peabody Award for excellence in the media. His Last Week Tonight show earned him the annual honour with judges praising it as 'a most worthy addition to the news-as-comedy genre'. Unlike awards such as the Oscars there are no fixed number of Peabody Awards, nor any categories. Inside Amy Schumer was also recognised for being 'smart, distinctively female and amiably profane.'
STAND-UP Lou Sanders has released her first stand-up show as a professionally-shot download. Her 2014 Edinburgh Fringe offering Another Great Show Again – which was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award – has been released as a download by independent label Go Faster Stripe today, priced £5. Buy.
A HOST of comics led by Sarah Millican, Jo Brand and Jenny Eclair are taking part in a West End fundraiser for Comic Relief next month, organised by online women's magazine Standard Issue. Also on the bill at the Lyric Theatre on May 11 are Susan Calman, Katherine Ryan, Holly Walsh, Sara Pascoe and Jessica Fostekew. Tickets
Published: 20 Apr 2015