I'm not flyering - I'll do tarot readings instead
Andrew Clover on doing a pared-back Edinburgh Fringe
16/07/2024 … Fringe performer Andrew Clover is shunning flyers and will instead promote his show via an alternative route – tarot cards.
Tue 16 July 2024
Rolling in the aisles...
Gary: Tank Commander to entertain Lidl shoppers
16/07/2024 … Fed up of supermarket musak? Well, Lidl will instead play comedy shows from Gary: Tank Commander in its Scottish stores next month.
Sat 13 July 2024
© The White House/CC BY-SA 3.0 Fri 12 July 2024
A local honour for a local person
Steve Pemberton becomes an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashir
12/07/2024 … Steve Pemberton has been given an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire.
Thu 11 July 2024
Ed Byrne: How a rude barman made me famous in New Zealand
Comic was threatened with a lawsuit for talking about him
11/07/2024 … Ed Byrne has credited his success in New Zealand to a surly barman who threatened to sue the comic for calling him rude on stage.
© Cecile van Straten from Manila, Philippines (Nigella pic) cc-by-sa 2.0 When Nigella Lawson hit on Elliot Steel
11/07/2024 … She mat be 24 years his senior – but that didn’t stop Nigella Lawson making a pass at comedian Elliot Steel when he was still a teenager.
Tue 09 July 2024
© BBC I'm definitely Bob Mortimer... would I lie to you?
Comic's image used in Tinder catfishing scam
09/07/2024 … Bob Mortimer has got inadvertently caught up in an dating app catfishing scam.
Mon 08 July 2024
The one concession Shaun Of The Dead made for Americans
Simon Pegg reveals he tweaked one line in the script
08/07/2024 … Shaun Of The Dead is a quintessentially British horror-comedy but Simon Pegg has revealed he and director Edgar Wright made one concession to to American…