Sky sets air date for Sarah Kendall's Frayed
1980s-set comedy launches next month
19/08/2019 … Sky One has announced that Sarah Kendall’s new comedy Frayed is to launch on September 26.
Mon 19 August 2019
Jason Manford describes terrifying road-rage chase
Crazed driver followed him for 80 miles
19/08/2019 … Jason Manford has told of his terror of being chased for 80 miles by a crazed road-rage driver.
© Raffi Asdourian/CC BY-SA 2.0 Channel 4 orders a satirical comedy horror series
19/08/2019 … Channel 4 has commissioned a satirical comedy-horror series from film-maker Ben Wheatley.
Adam Hills is back on Australian TV
As music quiz Spicks and Specks returns
19/08/2019 … Adam Hills is returning to Australian TV.
Olaf Falafel wins Joke of the Fringe
With a cheesy cauliflower line
19/08/2019 … Olaf Falafel has won this year’s joke of the Fringe.
Sun 18 August 2019
Amused Moose picks its Magnificent 7
Winner will get a two-week New York run
18/08/2019 … Seven comedians have been nominated for this year’s Amused Moose Comedy Award for the best Edinburgh Fringe show from ‘talent on the cusp of fame’.
Rory O Hanlon: Confidence
Edinburgh Fringe review by Alex Bruce
18/08/2019 … Another day, another comedian exhuming the same exhausted comic corpses.
Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
18/08/2019 … Should any explanation be needed, Aaron Simmonds has taken a derogatory term used for black or Asian people who are considered ‘white on the inside’…