Is this a first for a comedian? If only there was a statistician we could ask....
28/02/2025 … Andy Zaltzman may have just claimed an unlikely record – as the first comedian to be nominated for a data journalism award.
His song teased the Police frontman on the set of Quadrophenia
26/02/2025 … He’s the mildest-mannered musician you could envisage – but in a previous incarnation, John Shuttleworth made Sting’s life a misery.
Movie icon tells James Acaster and Ed Gamble about eating cobra
26/02/2025 … James Acaster and Ed Gamble have pulled of a coup for their Off Menu podcast – securing Robert De Niro as a guest.
Top US comic plays... a bar in Ryde
25/02/2025 … In the States, he’s a big-name headliner and game show host, so when Jeff Dye visits the UK, there’s naturally only one place he’ll play… …a…
© Adam Chitayat/CC BY-SA 4.0 He *is* in the country at the right time...
18/02/2025 … Bill Murray has announced a UK date… intriguingly close to Glastonbury in both time and place.
How Troy Hawkes compliments hilariously confused a bystander in Amsterdam
18/02/2025 … As Troy Hawke, comic Milo McCabe has won more than a million followers on both Instagram and TikTok for videos of himself paying people delightful…
Operation Mincemeat's Broadway transfer is hit by president's tarrifs
17/02/2025 … The Broadway transfer of Operation Mincemeat has been hit by Donald Trump’s trade war.
© Foto Ad Meskens / Creative Commons Shocking hotel prices revealed
17/02/2025 … It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s visited the Fringe – but Edinburgh has the highest hotel prices in the world in the summer.
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