'We have lost the best of the best'
How comedy world is mourning Sean Lock
20/08/2021 … The outpouring of grief over the death of Sean Lock at the age of 58 is testament to how adored he was across the comedy world.
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Fri 20 August 2021
Thu 19 August 2021
'Making people literally yelp with laughter is just magical'
Q&A with Fringe performer Rachel E Thorn
19/08/2021 … Meet actress and writer Rachel E Thorn, who is bringing her 1990s-themed show Lovefool to the Fringe this year… What have you learnt about yourself…
© C4 Whenever I go for a wee, I think of Rosie Jones and Frankie Dettori riding her
Joe Lycett interview as Got Your Back returns
19/08/2021 … How does it feel to be making a third series of Got Your Bck? Really good! I felt really out of my comfort zone when we first started on this series because…
Thought you had a tumultuous pandemic? Wait till you read this!
Comedian Katharyn Henson on her wild year and love of the Fringe
19/08/2021 … New York comic Katharyn Henson returns to the Fringe today with her show Ew Girl, You Nasty.
Tue 17 August 2021
'I did a gig in a van to a Norwegian family'
Sam Lake recalls a weird Fringe gig as he returns to Edinburgh
17/08/2021 … Sam Lake is a former winner of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year award, who also set up the comedy night Joy Multiplication with fellow…
© BBC/Channel X/Chris Harris Who were the lead characters in Detectorists?
Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz... with a sport and leisure theme
17/08/2021 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Sat 14 August 2021
It's the same Kurupt FM crew... but on a bigger scale
Steve Stamp and Asim Chaudhry on the People Just Do Nothing movie Big In Japan
14/08/2021 … Steve Stamp and Asim Chaudhry starred as drug casualty DJ Steves and band manager Chabuddy G - the latter loosely based on Chaudhry’s own wheeler-dealer father…
Will there be more People Just Do Nothing? Never say never
Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin speak about the new Kurupt FM movie
14/08/2021 … Allan 'Seapa' Mustafa and Hugo Chegwin starred as MC Grindah and DJ Beats in five series of People Just Do Nothing, the BBC mockumentary about Kurupt FM,…