Heidi Regan: Heidi vs Sharks
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
22/08/2018 … ‘I've been told I'm a slow burner,’ deadpan Australian comedian Heidi Regan tells the audience.
Wed 22 August 2018
© Bafta BBC pilots a new sitcom from Murder In Successville's Tom Davis
Co-starring Simon Day, Romesh Ranganathan and Detectorists’ Laura Checkley
22/08/2018 … The team behind Murder In Successville are to pilot a new sitcom about a married couple to air as BBC One’s Comedy Playhouse, Described as a ‘larger-than-life…
Al Murray to ask: Why does everyone hate the English?
Comics explore the question for the History Channel
22/08/2018 … Al Murray is making a history programme entitled Why Does Everyone Hate The English? The five-part show for the History Chanel will explore England’s…
Andrew Lawrence: Clean
Edinburgh Fringe review by Steve Bennett
22/08/2018 … Will Andrew Lawrence ever shake the controversy that his infamous Facebook rant of 2014 provoked, when he came out as anti-immigration and blasted the ‘moronic,…
Comedy Central picks up Amusical
TV version of the show in which comics sing hits from the musicals
22/08/2018 … Comedy Central is to pilot a TV version of live comedy hit Amusical – in which comedians perform songs from the musicals.
Second series for Lee And Dean
Channel 4 to return to the Stevenage builders
22/08/2018 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Lee and Dean, the comedy series about two builders in Stevenage.
Aatif Nawaz: Instant GrAATIFication
Edinburgh Fringe review by Jay Richardson
22/08/2018 … An entitled millennial with career aspirations, Aatif Nawaz has belatedly enjoyed some success as an actor, with an Easyjet commercial under his belt.
'It's completely batshit and I love it'
William Andrews chooses his comedy favourites
22/08/2018 … As a writer I feel I’m very in touch with human emotions and by that I mean sometimes I write bare bummed.