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.
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Tue 08 June 2021
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.
© BBC Vyvyan the punk's on Radio 3!
Or at least Adrian Edmondson will be, with a series of essays
07/06/2021 … Whatever would Vyvyan Basterd say? The psychopathic punk of The Young Ones is heading to the erudite uplands of Radio 3… or at least his…
© zoetnet / Flickr When are Edinburgh Fringe tickets going on sale?
Organisers to open box office amid ongoing uncertainty
07/06/2021 … The Edinburgh Fringe office will be selling the first tickets to this year’s festival from July 1 - despite huge uncertainty about what the event will look…