Reviews from Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival
10/02/2015 … Count Arthur Strong: Somebody Up There Licks Me John Shuttleworth: A Wee Ken To Remember The UK Pun Championship Ivo Graham: Bow Ties and Johnnies Midlands…
Tue 10 February 2015
© Adam Johnson/Slapstick Barry Cryer hailed as a legend
10/02/2015 … BARRY CRYER is to be honoured as a 'comedy legend' by Bristol's Slapstick festival, following in the footsteps of Barry Humphries and June Whitfield.
Did the Grammys snub Joan Rivers?
Comic omitted from 'in memoriam' reel
10/02/2015 … Joan Rivers fans are upset that the comedy legend was not honoured at the Grammy Awards's 'in memoriam' section at the weekend.
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.
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.