The IT Crowd in space?
C4 pilot for Linehan and Buxton
10/02/2015 … Graham Linehan and Adam Buxton have joined forces to write a new sci-fi comedy pilot for Channel 4.
Tue 10 February 2015
The comedy podcast outselling Ed Sheeran
Top Ten slot for The Football Ramble
10/02/2015 … An album created by the team behind a successful comedy podcast has become a top ten bestseller.
Mon 09 February 2015
© BBC/2LE Media/Colin Hutton TV review: Asylum
BBC Four's new embassy-based comedy
09/02/2015 … All good sitcom characters are trapped, so Julian Assange’s situation, holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy with a potential death sentence hanging over him, is…
Danny Deegan: From Beginning To End
Leicester Comedy Festival Review by Steve Bennett
09/02/2015 … It’s not yet 9pm on Sunday, but it feels much later: the audience are relaxed – some after a full day of seeing festival shows – and the venue intimate.
Ivo Graham: Bow Ties And Johnnies
Leicester Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
09/02/2015 … Eton has a double-edged reputation for forging leaders of men, brimming with confidence and entitlement that they are somehow an elite breed above the rest.
Dan Lees: Brainchild
Leicester Comedy Festival review by Steve Bennett
09/02/2015 … Formerly half of musical comedy duo Moonfish Rhumba, Dan Lees’s first solo show has him in the guise of a modern-day clown with a penchant for audience participation,…
Miranda unveils some Hartwork
'Donation statues' for Comic Relief
09/02/2015 … Miranda Hart has unveiled a collection of Comic Relief ‘donation statues’ featuring famous comedy icons.
International comedy is harder than Eddie Izzard says
09/02/2015 … An interview with Eddie Izzard in The Guardian last week was a great testimony to his commendable efforts to demonstrate that comedy can cross borders between cultures…