Amazon stand-up series to air next year

Amazon has revealed the comics taking part in its new stand-up series Backstage with Katherine Ryan.

This series, which airs next year, will mix comedy performance with  backstage chat, all rercorded at London’s iconic Roundhouse. 

The line-up includes: Frankie Boyle, Sara Pascoe, Judi Love, Ivo Graham, Jo Brand, Nish Kumar, Joel Dommett, Rosie Jones, Rob Beckett, Sue Perkins, Tom Allen, Michelle De Swarte, Jimmy Carr, Desiree Burch, Seann Walsh, Nick Mohammed, Sarah Millican, Joanne McNally, Russell Kane, Geoff Norcott, and Darren Harriott.

Ryan said: ‘After having nearly two years of cancelled gigs, comics are as eager to get backstage as they are to get on stage again.  We’ll be taking you with us behind the curtain and into our sacred space so you can share in the candid hilarity that happens before and after a gig. It’s a whole new way to experience the magic of stand-up.’

She also revorded this teaser trailer:

Ben Wicks from programme-makers Expectation, said: ‘We’ve got the best stand-ups performing in a beautiful venue to a comedy-starved audience… [and] in a major blow to FOMO, we also have 40 cameras behind the backstage door. 

‘We’ll see the funniest comics on earth as you’ve never seen them before: wildly indiscreet and completely unfiltered. Just spare a thought for the editor.’

And Amazon’s Dan Grabiner added: ‘It’s often said that the funniest material of the night takes place backstage, and this series is about peeking behind-the-scenes, giving the audience a backstage pass to comedy’s inner-sanctum.

‘In Katherine, we have the perfect host, and we’re delighted to be featuring some of the very best in the business across the series.’

Amazon Prime Video has also donated an undisclosed fee to the Live Comedy Association and NextUp Comedy’s #SaveLiveComedy fund, which was established to provide hardship grants to those in the live comedy industry who suffered a loss of income due to the pandemic.  

Published: 26 Aug 2021