Sky to make an Irish stand-up series
05/09/2019 … Deirdre O’Kane is to front a new stand-up show for Sky One.
Thu 05 September 2019
A running joke
Paul Tonkinson to release a book about running the London Marathon
05/09/2019 … Stand-up Paul Tonkinson is writing a book about trying to run the London Marathon in under three hours.
How Stephen Fry could have become an MP
Ambitions revealed in an archive letter to Neil Kinnock
05/09/2019 … Current events have shown what happens when a panel-show regular goes into politics.
Trailer for Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Zach Galifianakis film hits Netflix this month
05/09/2019 … Netflix has released the trailer for the movie based on Zach Galifianakis awkward internet talk show Between Two Ferns.
Wed 04 September 2019
Laurence Clarke joins Corrie writers
Comic helps storyboard 25 episodes
04/09/2019 … Comedian Laurence Clarke has joined the writing team for Coronation Street.
Grace and Frankie to bow out
Netflix orders a seventh and final season
04/09/2019 … Netflix comedy Grace and Frankie is to come to an end after its seventh series.
Ten comedians who died on stage
...as a new book chronicles performers who died with their boots on
04/09/2019 … From the most famous – Tommy Cooper – to the most recent – Ian Cognito – comedians who die on stage hold a special fascination.
Ricky Gervais as you've never seen him before
04/09/2019 … Here’s Ricky Gervais as you’ve never seen him before – as a black cop on Baywatch.