Frank goes to Hollywood... kind of
04/05/2014 … TodayCOMEDY IN BRIGHTON: The city’s busy Fringe festival continues all week… highlights tonight include Glenn Wool at the Komedia (6.
Sun 04 May 2014
Marty Feldman's memoirs discovered
Lost autobiography to be published this year
04/05/2014 … Marty Feldman’s memoirs are to be published - more than 30 years after his death.
Why I hate the phrase 'northern club comic'
Freddy Quinne on a lazy journalistic shorthand
04/05/2014 … Perhaps my least favourite phrase in the whole of comedy is 'smashed it'.
Sat 03 May 2014
Richard Gadd: Cheese And Crack Whores
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre
03/05/2014 … Richard Gadd twists the ‘tears-of-clown’ idea into odd and occasionally disturbing angles with this ambitious show, which takes artistic self-flagellation to…
Fri 02 May 2014
© Dave M Bennet/Getty Cresswell's death 'brought on by drugs'
Cocaine blamed for agent's heart attack
02/05/2014 … Comedy agent Addison Cresswell died of a heart attack brought on by snorting cocaine at a Christmas party, an inquest into his death has heard.
Blowing the budget
02/05/2014 … ‘I hardly ever get slagged off [online] now.
Variety era comic Eli Woods dies
02/05/2014 … Comic Eli Woods – best known as Jimmy James’s stuttering stooge – has died at the age of 91.
Comics: Stop saying 'midget'
It's a cheap laugh that causes harm, says Warwick Davis
02/05/2014 … Warwick Davis has called on comedians to stop using the word 'midget'.