Rivers up for posthumous Grammy
Nominated for spoken word album
06/12/2014 … Joan Rivers is in the running for a posthumous Grammy Award.
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Sat 06 December 2014
Fri 05 December 2014
Comedians 'infest' the Edinburgh Fringe
Leading arts figure slams stand-ups' dominance
05/12/2014 … The Edinburgh Fringe suffers from an ‘infestation’ of stand-ups who ‘degrade’ the festival’s founding principles.
Writers' Guild nominees announced
Vic & Bob and Jessica Hynes among them
05/12/2014 … Vic and Bob are among the nominees in the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards, that have just been announced.
Caravan of comedy
Simon Day and Rhys Thomas plan new sitcom
05/12/2014 … Simon Day is being lined up to play a reformed violent criminal in a sitcom his regular collaborator Rhys Thomas is writing for the BBC.
I am not a crook...
05/12/2014 … • Paul Foot has tweeted Sussex Police to say he is not the burglary suspect they are looking for – after they released this e-fit, which looks suspiciously …
Another Radio 4 series for Susan Calman
05/12/2014 … RADIO 4 has commissioned a third series of Susan Calman Is Convicted, her stand-up show about subjects on which she has strong opinions.
Thu 04 December 2014
Ambassadors expelled
04/12/2014 … AMBASSADORS, the comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as British diplomats in a fictional central Asian country will nor be renewed for a second series,…
Bill Bailey announces 2015 tour
04/12/2014 … Bill Bailey is to tour the UK next autumn.