Dan Tiernan is top Frog
New comic wins Manchester contest
03/11/2020 … Dan Tiernan, who works in a care home for young asylum seekers, has won the annual new act competition run by Manchester’s Frog and Bucket.
Tue 03 November 2020
Mon 02 November 2020
Rob Kemp’s Elvis Dead to be released - on VHS
'The most beautiful object I think we have ever produced'
02/11/2020 … The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp’s cult live show which retold a classic horror movie through Elvis Presley-style songs, is to be released on VHS.
© UKTV Sian Gibson and Johnny Vegas to star in three new whodunits
Gold commissions new series from writer Jason Cook
02/11/2020 … Sian Gibson and Johnny Vegas are to reprise their crime-solving roles for a new series of murder-mystery films for Gold.
Daniel Kitson: Dot. Dot. Dot.
Virtual gig review by Steve Bennett
02/11/2020 … As if the world hasn’t been knocked off its axis enough this year, here comes another shock… a show from Daniel Kitson that’s – whisper…
Radio 4 to air another Count Arthur Strong Christmas special
...after repeating a season of the old ones
02/11/2020 … Radio 4 has commissioned another Count Arthur Strong Christmas special.
Sun 01 November 2020
Emily attacks dating in her new ITV show
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
01/11/2020 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio Monday November 2 STAND UP FOR LIVE COMEDY: The last in the series comes from London, with Jamali Maddix…
Weekend Update on Trump’s final 2020 election message
01/11/2020 … Donald Trump claiming that doctors wanted patients to die of Covid so they would get richer - and the fact that his rallies have been deemed responsible for 700…
The final hoorah-ha-ha
The week's best live comedy... at least until lockdown returns
01/11/2020 … A very limited pick of the best of the week’s live comedy.