
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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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.
08/06/2021 … Bill Bailey is to play a week of gig’s at the Royal Opera House in London.
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.
...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.
...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.
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.
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…
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…
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