2014 Archives
Wed 19 February 2014
How the bland and the posh failed alternative comedy
Alexei Sayle on 35 years in the business
19/02/2014 … Today’s stand-up scene has lost almost all links to the revolutionary spirit that first launched alternative comedy, Alexei Sayle has claimed.
Comic fights election on pro-busking ticket
Ben Van der Velde wins Green Party selection
19/02/2014 … Comedian Ben Van der Velde is to fight in May’s local election for the Green Party.
Karen Gillan cast in US sitcom
Dr Who star takes lead in Selfie
19/02/2014 … Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan is to take the lead role in a new American sitcom called Selfie.
Chris Morris to appear in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
19/02/2014 … Chris Morris is to appear in the new series of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle.
'The material is cooking with gas'
Stewart Lee on the return of Comedy Vehicle
19/02/2014 … I just found out that transmission of the 3rd series of the Bafta, multiple British Comedy Award and Chortle award winning Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle has been…
Speaking ill of the dead...
Comic's bad-taste seance to mark anniversary of Thatcher's death
19/02/2014 … Stand-up Nathaniel Tapley is to mark the first anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s death with a comically disrespectful seance to raise her spirit from beyond…