Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre
14/01/2016 … The resurgence of physical comedy was given another boost last August when Trygve Wakenshaw picked up an Edinburgh Comedy Award for this ambitious 90-minute show.
Haters Back Off coming soon...
14/01/2016 … Internet comedy star Miranda Sings has been signed up by Netflix.
...and that's why we have issues of taste, argues Ivor Dembina
14/01/2016 … The idea of offence in stand-up only arose because comedy became more middle-class in the wake of the alternative cabaret boom of the 1980s.
Sixth series after a three-year absence
14/01/2016 … Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags & Bags is to return to for a sixth series.
C4's new show about instant tech millionaires
14/01/2016 … Fresh Meat and Peep Show writer Jon Brown is penning a new series about four life-long friends who become multi-millionaires overnight.
How comics get audiences to accept contentious gags
14/01/2016 … Any audience can be ‘manipulated’ into laughing at jokes about contentious topics, a conference about comedy has been told.
14/01/2016 … THE cast of Friends are to reunite for a one-off American TV special honouring legendary sitcom director James Burrows.
Foreign Bodies based on backpacking
14/01/2016 … Tom Basden is writing a new backpacking comedy-drama for E4.
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