When comedians die on stage...
The comedy week ahead
Sunday August 18
LIVE IN LONDON: Jimmy Carr plays the excellent setting of Regent’s Park Open AIr Theatre tonight. Pray the weather is sunnier than his jokes...
Monday August 19
RADIO Comedy musician Richard Morton talks to some of Britain's best loved stand-up comics about their memories of the nightmare gigs they'd rather forget in I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down. Among those sharing stories are Jo Brand, Tim Clark, Jack Dee, Mike Gunn, Milton Jones, Lucy Porter and Ian Stone. Radio 4, 4pm
DVD: The DVD of Count Arthur Strong’s BBC Two series is out today. Click here to order
Tuesday August 20
Thursday August 22
LIVE IN EDINBURGH It’s the final of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? new act competition at the Gilded Balloon. The finalist are Nicky Wilkinson, Tom Taylor, Laura Mclenaghan, Alasdair Beckett King, Russ Peers, Jenny Collier, Edward Hedges, Andrew McBurney and Demi Lardner.
Friday August 23
RADIO: Comic Fringes, A three-part story series featuring new writing by leading comedians. recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe, starts with The Understudy, written and performed by Jenny Éclair. Crammed into her tiny dressing room, an actress looks back on the highs and lows – mainly lows – of her life and career. Radio 4, 3.45pm
Published: 18 Aug 2013