Dom Joly to release a comic travel audiobook
About his trips around England
08/06/2021 … Dom Joly is to release comic travel audiobook about his trips around England, entitled Such Miserable Weather.
2021 News
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Tue 08 June 2021
© BBC Mark and Elliot Steel's sitcom picked up by Radio 4
Unite also stars Ivo Graham and Claire Skinner
08/06/2021 … Radio 4 has picked up the sitcom Unite - staring father-and-son comedians Mark and Elliot Steel – for a full series.
2021 South Bank Award nominees announced
Home, Feel Good and Ghosts up for best comedy
08/06/2021 … Home, Feel Good and Ghosts have been nominated for nest comedy at this year’s South Bank Awards.
Bill Bailey to play London's Royal Opera House
08/06/2021 … Bill Bailey is to play a week of gig’s at the Royal Opera House in London.
Mon 07 June 2021
Netflix reschedules its mammoth comedy festival
But no names yet confirmed for LA event
07/06/2021 … Netflix has set new dates for its star-studded comedy festival, after Covid forced the cancellation of the debut event in spring 2020.
'I lost a gig because I'm a straight white male'
...and it happens to us all, says comic Nick Dixon
07/06/2021 … Stand-up Nick Dixon has claimed that he has been turned down for a gig because he’s a white, straight, able-bodied man.
© Two Rivers Frankie Boyle writes his first novel
...and now he's seeking a publisher
07/06/2021 … Frankie Boyle has written his first novel, described as a ‘multicultural, postcolonial’ story about his home city of Glasgow.
© Leo Cackett Michelle De Swarte to star in horror comedy The Baby
07/06/2021 … Actor and comedian Michelle De Swarte has landed the starring role in Sky’s darkly comic horror, The Baby, the broadcaster announced today.