Who might win the biggest award in comedy 2024?
14/08/2024 … The long list for the literal biggest prize in comedy – a 2m inflatable trophy – has been announced.
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Wed 14 August 2024
Jessica Knappett joins Christian Brighty's radio sitcom
...as does Dark Knight star Colin McFarlane
14/08/2024 … Jessica Knappett and Dark Knight star Colin McFarlane have joined the cast of Radio 4’s new period sitcom The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty.
Omid Djalili reveals more details of his sitcom pilot
Show revolves around a stand-up teaching a comedy course
14/08/2024 … Omid Djalili has revealed more details of the sitcom pilot he has shot in his Ipswich home town.
Tue 13 August 2024
Ruby Wax returns to the West End
First London shows in a decade
13/08/2024 … Ruby Wax is to return to the West End for the first time in ten years.
Trygve's a Seoul man
Award for Wakenshaw's Fringe mime show
13/08/2024 … New Zealand mime comic Trygve Wakenshaw has won a Seoul Arts Award for his new Edinburgh Fringe show, Silly Little Things.
Guz Khan cast in Riz Ahmed's new comedy
'Trippy conspiracy thriller' for Amazon's Prime Video
13/08/2024 … Guz Khan has been cast as a series regular in the new comedy series Sound Of Metal star Riz Ahmed is making for Amazon’s Prime Video However details about…
Jon Richardson joins Absolute Radio
Taking the slot Frank Skinner was booted out of
13/08/2024 … Jon Richardson is to join Absolute Radio.
Reginald D Hunter in antisemitism storm
Israeli hecklers faced anti-Jewish jeers
13/08/2024 … Two Israeli audience members were booed out of Reginald D Hunter’s Edinburgh Fringe show in what one observer called ‘the most unpleasant comedy gig…