Kabarett's Kleine Komedie - Fringe 2009
11/08/2009 … 6pm is no time for a ‘dark alternative variety revue with comedy, freakshow, neo-burlesque and macabre musings’ – but that’s the vagaries of Edinburgh programming…
Tue 11 August 2009
Mon 10 August 2009
The MOBOs of comedy?
New black comedy awards launched
10/08/2009 … The Real McCoy stars Eddie Nestor and Robbie Gee are to be given lifetime achievement awards at a new ceremony celebrating the best in black comedians.
Comedians go wild
Stand-ups voice new BBC family comedy
10/08/2009 … A bunch of circuit stand-ups have lent their voices to a new BBC One family show, providing a comedy commentary to natural history footage.
Periodical pains
Sean Mason asks why there are no comedy magazines
10/08/2009 … A friend of mine recently asked me why there were no comedy magazines: one about comedy, not one that is comic in nature - in the form of NME (before it became OK…
A hiding to nothing
Carl Donnelly on what comics get up to when not on stage
10/08/2009 … For anyone out there who has pondered the question ‘I wonder what comedians are like off-stage, in the comfort of their own home?’, the following story should…
Magic casting
Rhys Darby to play washed-up illusionist
10/08/2009 … Rhys Darby is to play a hapless magician in a one-off comedy to air on Channel 4 later this year, Chortle can reveal.
Sitcom spawns stage musical
10/08/2009 … Danny DeVito’s US sitcom It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia has spawned a stage spin-off.