Comedy Store enters the metaverse
Gigs to be live-streamed in VR
22/02/2023 … The Comedy Store is swapping its regular Friday-night shows for a new 3D virtual reality experience.
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Wed 22 February 2023
© BBC/Nit TV/Ray Burmiston You've Been Framed axed
Harry Hill's video mishap show dropped after 33 years
22/02/2023 … ITV has dropped You’ve Been Framed after 33 years.
Cecilia Delatori wins Silver Stand Up competition
Leicester Comedy Festival contest for over-55s
22/02/2023 … Musical comedian Cecilia Delatori has been named the winner of this year's Silver Stand Up competition for comics aged over 55.
Tue 21 February 2023
© BBC Studios Seventh series for Two Doors Down
21/02/2023 … The BBC has ordered a seventh series of hit sitcom Two Doors Down – and promoted it to a BBC One slot.
Latitude announces its 2023 comedy headliners
21/02/2023 … Ed Gamble, Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe and Romesh Ranganathan has been announced as the headliners of this year’s Latitude Festival.
© SK/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Fringe city's main newspaper all-but ignores the festival
Adelaide Advertiser used to publish hundreds of reviews. Not this year.
21/02/2023 … It is the world’s biggest Fringe festival after Edinburgh – but residents of Adelaide in South Australia would barely know it was taking place if…
© Condé Nast (through Vogue Taiwan)/CC BY-SA 3.0 New Channel 4 comedy for Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan
Written by her real-life friend
21/02/2023 … Derry Girls star Nicola Coughlan is to star in a new Channel 4 comedy-drama about female friendships – written by a real-life pal.
Mon 20 February 2023
Bloody funny! It's the Cannibal Comedian
Gruesome new horror flick set in the world of stand-up
20/02/2023 … Stand-up might have a reputation for attracting society’s outsiders… but what about a psychopathic cannibal? That’s the premise of a new, low-budget…