Aberdeen comedy festival called off
October gigs called off as social distancing makes it unviable
03/08/2020 … The Aberdeen International Comedy Festival, due to take place from October 1 to 11, has been called off.
Mon 03 August 2020
Ultra-rich mega nerds
Nish Kumar's latest Hello America monologue
03/08/2020 … Nish Kumar took a look at the congressional hearing into the big four tech companies - Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon – in the latest episode of his short-form…
More comics reschedule tours
Autumn's starting to look very barren...
03/08/2020 … More comedians have rescheduled their planned autumn tours until 2021.
Romesh Ranganathan takes over as League Of Their Own host
For six of the next eight episodes
03/08/2020 … Romesh Ranganathan has effectively taken over as host of Sky panel show A League of Their Own.
Line-up revealed for Comedy Central's virtual Fringe
Jamali Maddix to introduced ten comedians
03/08/2020 … Comedy Central has revealed the host and line-up of rising comedians who will star in the digital series it is making in lieu of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Jamali…
Shaun Ryder joins the happy Mandy
...but only because Mark E Smith died
03/08/2020 … Happy Mondays lead singer Shaun Ryder is making his TV acting debut in Diane Morgan’s sitcom Mandy - but only because Mark E Smith died.
Sun 02 August 2020
© BBC/Objective Fiction Matt Berry returns as rogue historian Michael Squeamish
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
02/08/2020 … Monday August 3 TRAVEL MAN: Richard Ayoade’s globetrotting series arrives on Dave for the first time, with ten episodes stripped in double bills at the…
