NextUp films 14 Fringe shows
Stand-up specials to be released on streaming platform this autumn
29/08/2019 … Comedy on demand service NextUp have announced that they filmed 14 shows during the Edinburgh Fringe.
Thu 29 August 2019
Brighton's Komedia launches new comedy award
But the prize is just a bottle of 'fizz'
29/08/2019 … One of Britain’s biggest comedy clubs has announced a new act competition, with just a bottle of ‘fizz’ as the prize.
Outtakes from Dad's Army: The Lost Episodes
29/08/2019 … Gold has released a new video of outtakes from its newly remade Dad's Army episodes.
Netflix to release Mo Gilligan special
Momentum recorded at the Hackney Empire
29/08/2019 … Mo Gilligan has sold his first stand-up special to Netflix.
© BBC Jo Brand's battery acid joke 'went too far'
But watchdog rules that it wasn't incitement
29/08/2019 … Jo Brand's joke about throwing battery acid at far-right politicians has been censured by the BBC’s independent complaints unit.
© Matt Humphrey Fleabag in the West End
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at the Wyndham's Theatre
29/08/2019 … So this is how Fleabag bows out, exactly as it began, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge alone on a barstool on a starkly-lit stage, spilling out the warts-and-all story…
Wed 28 August 2019
Simon Pegg to star in comedy heist thriller
28/08/2019 … Simon Pegg is to star in a new comedy heist thriller.
Trailer for Season 3 of Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father
28/08/2019 … Netflix has released the trailer for the third series of Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father.