Stewart Lee: Netflix told me I was 'too parochial' for a special
Comic also speaks of Jerry Springer and more in new podcast
12/02/2018 … Stewart Lee has revealed that he was rejected for a Netflix special for being 'too parochial'.
Mon 12 February 2018
Revealed: The secret of Micky Flanagan's success
12/02/2018 … Micky Flanagan's agent has revealed the secret of his success… moisturiser.
Harry Hill and Bridget Christie to play Latitude
Both making their debuts at the festival
12/02/2018 … Harry Hill is to headline this year’s Latitude, the first time he’s played the festival.
NATY New Act Of The Year final 2018
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Rich Mix Studios, London
12/02/2018 … It’s apt that the nomadic NATY awards – homeless since their days of being linked to the Hackney Empire – wound up in East London’s…
Comedy Central US renews Tosh.0 to 2020
'Knowing when to stop is highly overrated'
12/02/2018 … America’s Comedy Central in the US has ordered three more seasons of Daniel Tosh’s show Tosh.
© BBC WorldWide/Andy Seymour Filming starts on Alan Partridge's comeback
To be entitled This Time With Alan Partridge
12/02/2018 … Filming has begun today Alan Partridge’s return to the BBC, 15 years after he left the Corporation.
Rob Beckett to front video game show
12/02/2018 … Rob Beckett is to front a retro computer game show on Channel 4, Chortle can reveal.
Sun 11 February 2018
RIP Kim Kinnie, the Svengali of alternative comedy
Tributes paid to the Comedy Store's original booker
11/02/2018 … Kim Kinnie, the long-serving gatekeeper of the Comedy Store and a ‘spiritual godfather’ to many stand-ups in the early days of alternative comedy, has…