Sat 15 July 2017
Sally Phillips to curate The Museum Of Curiosity
New sidekick for John Lloyd's Radio 4 show
15/07/2017 … Sally Phillips is set to be the next curator of Radio 4’s Museum Of Curiosity.
© Stuart Hogben Dara O Briain at Latitude 2017
15/07/2017 … You need a certain confidence to be headlining Latitude and bring out a sheaf of notes in front of 2,000 people, including an unforgiving comedy critic.
Fri 14 July 2017
Another BBC New Comedy Award heat winner named
Aaron Simmonds males the semis
14/07/2017 … Aaron Simmonds has won tonight’s heat of this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.
© Stuart Hogben Chris Ramsey at Latitude 2017
14/07/2017 … The pram in the hall is said to spell the death of creativity, but for comedians a new baby can easily be a rich vein of new material, just as long as they take…
© Stuart Hogben Seann Walsh at Latitude 2017
14/07/2017 … Seann Walsh, the king of exasperated observation comedy, isn’t sure the middle-class Latitude crowd are his kind of people.
© BBC/Goodnight Vienna Productions New sitcom for Car Share's Sian Gibson
...as BBC launches a comedy bursary for Northern women
14/07/2017 … Car Share star Sian Gibson is developing a new sitcom with the BBC.
POTUS and the parsnip
14/07/2017 … Tweets of the week Trump could say parsnips are ghost carrots & Fox News would have a paranormal vegetable expert on verifying his claim.