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Finally, Sam Nicoresti, who I just think is going to have an absolutely massive Fringe. Their last show Wokeflake was bewilderingly high-concept, mixing satirical character comedy with frog-based ...
Vir Das has dropped the trailer for his new Netflix special Fool Volume. The show was filmed in a stadium in Mumbai, London’s Union Chapel and the Comedy Cellar in New York. But as the Indian comic ...
Frank Skinner has revealed that he ended up in A&E with severe sunburn after working on an archaeological dig in extreme heat.
Technicians who run the sound and lights for Edinburgh Fringe comedy shows are to be honoured with their own award for the first time this year. Comedian Elf Lyons has put up a £500 prize to go to ‘an ...
More explicit humour relies a lot on shocking the audience (rather than on allusion and confounding expectations) and not surprisingly usually appeals more to a younger audience. The laughter is based ...
Most Haunted presenter Yvette Fielding says she communicates with Eric Morecambe after buying his old desk. The paranormal investigator said: ‘Every time I sit down to write and do my paranormal ...
LONDON: The Italian-Jewish-American stand-up Gianmarco Soresi flies in from New York to perform his latest show The Drama King at Union Chapel. He'll be back for the Edinburgh Fringe (and a sold-out ...
THE LIVELY LIFE OF Lindsey Santoro: A new stand-up series based on the diary of the 37-year-old working-class, no-nonsense Brummy comedian still keeps. This, the first of four episodes, is entitled ...
Michael Palin performed a deleted scene from Life Of Brian yesterday, the first time he has delivered Monty Python material on stage in his Sheffield hometown for more than a decade.
Spitting Image: The Rest Is Bulls*!t is produced by Avalon, who also made the 2020 TV revival as well as the musical. One of the 1980s show’s original creators, Roger Law, is an executive producer on ...
Much has already been written and said about the Oasis reunion… but that’s not going to stop Broken News jumping on the bandwagon. Here reporter Chip Fusty speaks about how ‘two elderly bothers from ...
Stand-up specials from some of Britain’s top comics are to be aired on BBC Sounds. The broadcaster has acquired existing specials from the likes of Romesh Ranganathan, Jimmy Carr, and Sarah Millican ...