Is the sketch show dead? No, it’s better off live
Daniel Henry Kaes offers an alternative view
11/07/2013 … David Bussell’s Chortle correspondence piece yesterday contended that the sketch show is in trouble.
Thu 11 July 2013
Pryor doc wins film award
11/07/2013 … A FILM about Richard Pryor has been named best documentary at the East End Film Festival, which ended in London last night.
Bishop in China
Des talks to Jay Richardson about his latest challenge
11/07/2013 … Des Bishop is on a break from his job as a restaurant welcomer when I ring him in Hegang, a Chinese city on the border with Russia.
Wed 10 July 2013
Leave politics to the politicians
Vik Iyer thinks comics are better out of the establishment
10/07/2013 … Watching Russell Brand joust with Boris Johnson and Melanie Philips on Question Time gave the BBC’s venerated debating institution a certain, shall we say, Wrestlemania…
Joan Rivers accused of strike breaking
10/07/2013 … Joan Rivers is facing disciplinary action from the Writers Guild Of America for breaking a strike.