© Trevor Leighton Ben Elton extends his Authentic Stupidity tour
34 new dates including a week in the West End
20/09/2024 … Ben Elton has extended his Authentic Stupidity tour into 2025.
Fri 20 September 2024
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© Netflix Dave Chappelle tops Netflix stand-up ratings
Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr also in the top ten
20/09/2024 … Dave Chappelle had the most-watched stand-up special on Netflix in the first six months of the year.
© C4 Sharon Horgan to play Amanda Knox's mother
20/09/2024 … Sharon Horgan is to play the mother of Amanda Knox in a new mini-series about the American wrongly jailed for murder in Italy.
Hot Water launches a regular all-female comedy night
Just days after being called out for its male dominated bills
20/09/2024 … Liverpool’s Hot Water Comedy Club is to launch a weekly all-female comedy night, just days after being called out for the lack of women on its bills.
Thu 19 September 2024
Ben Elton: Authentic Stupidity
19/09/2024 … Ben Elton is well aware of his evolution from the politicised firebrand who was the public face of 1980s alternative comedy to elder statesman of the stand-up scene,…
Judi Love and Julian Barratt star in new animated CBBC series
Super Happy Magic Forest also features Greg McHugh and Spencer Jones
19/09/2024 … Judi Love and Julian Barratt are to voice a new CBBC animated series Super Happy Magic Forest.
© BBC Could Vic and Bob be making a comeback?
Reeves has hopes for a reunion stadium gig
19/09/2024 … Oasis might not be the only big-name 1990s double act heading for a reunion.
No, that's not a 'fanny pack'!
New York Times has to apologies for not knowing what Richard Gadd's sporran was
19/09/2024 … The New York Times has had to issue an apology after calling the sporran Richard Gadd wore to the Emmys a ‘fanny pack’.