Paul Chowdhry to tape a new stand-up special
At the Hackney Empire next month
07/05/2019 … Paul Chowdhry is to record a new stand-up special The Taskmaster and Live at the Apollo comedian will tape his set over two shows at the Hackney Empire on…
Tue 07 May 2019
© Jacqui Double 'My stuff was didactic... but it wasn’t very funny'
The founders of Alternative Cabaret reminisce...
07/05/2019 … In 1979, Tony Allen and Alexei Sayle set up a collective of politically motivated performers called Alternative Cabaret, with ethos borrowed from…
© Netflix Ricky Gervais pens a first draft of After Life series 2
07/05/2019 … Ricky Gervais has finished the first draft for a second series of After Life.
© Amy Schumer/Instagram Amy Schumer becomes a mum
...if you haven't had enough baby news for one day
07/05/2019 … If you aren't already sick of baby news – just 23 pages on the new Sussex in the Daily Mail – here's a little more.
Mon 06 May 2019
Susan Calman to uncover more Secret Scotland
Second series for C5 travelogue
06/05/2019 … Susan Calman is to make a second series of her Channel 5 travelogue.
![Alexei Sayle: Jeremy Corbyn trapped me in a cupboard | He tried to talk to me, and I was like 'yeah, whatever\](/images/photos/small/jeremy_corbyn.jpg "Alexei Sayle: Jeremy Corbyn trapped me in a cupboard | He tried to talk to me, and I was like 'yeah, whatever\")
© Gary Knight / Creative Commons Alexei Sayle: Jeremy Corbyn trapped me in a cupboard
He tried to talk to me, and I was like 'yeah, whatever\
06/05/2019 … Alexei Sayle has revealed he was once stuck in a cupboard with Jeremy Corbyn.
I was funny, I was innovative – and most importantly I was intimidating
Alexei Sayle on the birth of alternative comedy
06/05/2019 … Forty years after the Comedy Store opened and the alternative comedy boom started, pioneer Alexei Sayle sat down at the Alternative Comedy Now conference to discuss…
No place for comedy
David Baddiel recalls a trip to Auschwitz
06/05/2019 … David Baddiel has been asked to present a BBC documentary about Holocaust denial – prompting him to recall a visit to Auschwitz in which the mood of solemn…