Ruby Wax returns to the West End
First London shows in a decade
13/08/2024 … Ruby Wax is to return to the West End for the first time in ten years.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 13 August 2024
Trygve's a Seoul man
Award for Wakenshaw's Fringe mime show
13/08/2024 … New Zealand mime comic Trygve Wakenshaw has won a Seoul Arts Award for his new Edinburgh Fringe show, Silly Little Things.
Guz Khan cast in Riz Ahmed's new comedy
'Trippy conspiracy thriller' for Amazon's Prime Video
13/08/2024 … Guz Khan has been cast as a series regular in the new comedy series Sound Of Metal star Riz Ahmed is making for Amazon’s Prime Video However details about…
Jon Richardson joins Absolute Radio
Taking the slot Frank Skinner was booted out of
13/08/2024 … Jon Richardson is to join Absolute Radio.
Reginald D Hunter in antisemitism storm
Israeli hecklers faced anti-Jewish jeers
13/08/2024 … Two Israeli audience members were booed out of Reginald D Hunter’s Edinburgh Fringe show in what one observer called ‘the most unpleasant comedy gig…
Foo's our student comedy award winner
13/08/2024 … South African-born comic Foo has become the 20th winner of the Chortle Student Comedy Award.
Mon 12 August 2024
John Tothill undergoes urgent surgery
Comic cancels Edinburgh Fringe shows after his appendix burst
12/08/2024 … Comedian John Tothill has gone to hospital for an urgent appendix operation, cancelling some of his Edinburgh Fringe run.
© BBC New book from Gone Fishing's dog, Ted
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s canine companion 'writes his ‘pawtobiography'
12/08/2024 … Ted, the dog from Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse’s Gone Fishing, has 'written' his first book.