I Am Not Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … The Phoebe Waller-Bridge line isn’t just a gimmicky title to pull in the punters, it’s the whole basis for this show in which Joanna Tilley measures…
Thu 26 August 2021
Boorish Trumpson
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … Given the title and the vow to ‘make music great again’ you might expect some blunt satire here.
French and Saunders dust down previously unaired sketches
26/08/2021 … French & Saunders have released a second series of their podcast Titting About today – including some previously unaired sketches.
Richard Pulsford: A Bit Rich
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review
26/08/2021 … Rich Pulsford reckons there are 170 jokes in his 45-minute show, just under four a minute – which seems about right.
First look at the new Never Mind The Buzzcocks
26/08/2021 … Daisy May Cooper reduces the Never Mind the Buzzcocks panel to hysterics with her attempt at the intros round in this first-look clip from the newly revived series.
© C4 People Just Do Nothing stars film C4 crime caper
26/08/2021 … The creators of People Just Do Nothing and King Gary have joined forces for a new 1980s crime-comedy caper for Channel 4.
© Donna Sydee/CC BY-SA 4.0 Gemma Arterton to play Nick Hornby's Funny Girl
Novel about 1960s comedy scene adapted for Sky
26/08/2021 … Gemma Arterton is to play a groundbreaking 1960s comedy star in a new TV adaptation of Nick Hornby’s bestselling novel, Funny Girl.
Wed 25 August 2021
BBC orders comedy-thriller Black Ops
Undercover cops series to air next year
25/08/2021 … BBC One has ordered a new comedy-thriller about undercover police officers.