When comedians die on stage... | The comedy week ahead

When comedians die on stage...

The comedy week ahead

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

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