A tight 5: August 2

COMEDIANS including Jo Caulfield, Katie Mulgrew and Ray Bradshaw will be performing to passengers on a special ‘comedy coach’ on the 9.30am King’s Cross to Edinburgh Virgin East Coast train next Monday.

MATT LUCAS is to narrate a third series of It Was Alright In The 70s. Channel 4 has ordered three more one-hour episodes of the nostalgia show, which will feature the likes of Melvyn Hayes, Robin Askwith, Barry Cryer, Clive Anderson, Liza Goddard and Bill Oddie.

GUS BEATTIE, the former head of radio comedy at Glasgow based The Comedy Unit and producer of Radio 4’s Fags, Mags & Bags has left to set up his own independent production company, Gusman Productions, in Falkirk.

DYLAN MORAN, Reginald D Hunter and The Rubberbandits are among the comedians announced for the comedy stage of the Electric Picnic festival in County Laois Ireland, over the weekend of September 3 and 4. Also on the bill – the largest comedy line-up at any Irish festival –  are are Abandoman, Aisling Bea, Colin Murphy, Fred Cooke, Karl Spain and Andrew Stanley, among many others. However the festival has long since sold out.

UNBREAKABLE Kimmy Schmidt star Ellie Kemper has become a mum for the first time at the age of 36. She and her husband of four years, fellow actor Michael Koman, have welcomed their first child although no other details have been released.

Published: 2 Aug 2016