Mon 24 February 2014
Dawn French announces first solo tour
And first live dates in six years
24/02/2014 … Dawn French has announced her first ever solo tour, with a show based around her life and career.
© Steve Ullathorne Patrick Monahan: Cake Charmer
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Leicester Comedy Festival
24/02/2014 … Ever-ebullient Patrick Monahan is everyone’s best mate, hugging all in his audience as if they were long-lost relatives, and quickly filling the room with such…
RIP Harold Ramis
Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day genius dies
24/02/2014 … Director Harold Ramis, responsible for some of the biggest comedies to come out of Hollywood, has died at 69 after a long illness.
Bring them sunshine
Eric & Little Ern duo's charity single for flood victims
24/02/2014 … The Morecambe and Wise tribute act currently playing the West End are to release a version of their heroes theme song Bring Me Sunshine for flood victims,Actors…
8 Out Of 10 khats...
Comic shares narcotics with his audience
24/02/2014 … Stand-up Liam Mullone distributed half a pound of the stimulant khat to his audience at the Leicester Comedy Festival this weekend.
I thought it'd be cool to go to a posh uni... don't vilify me for that
Cambridge student Harry Wright defends the Oxbridge mafia
24/02/2014 … One of the routines in Stewart Lee’s upcoming Comedy Vehicle is, apparently, a riposte to a comment Lee Mack made a few years ago: that Stewart Lee was a member…
Romesh joins Newsjack
24/02/2014 … ROMESH RANGANATHAN is to take over as host of Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack from Justin Edwards when the new series returns on March 6.