Still Game pair win whisky trademark showdown
Jack Daniel's vs Jack and Victor
24/05/2023 … Still Game creators Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan have won a trademark showdown with booze giant Jack Daniel’s – after they launched a whisky…
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Wed 24 May 2023
Tue 23 May 2023
54 stand-ups head to the Oxford Comedy Festival
23/05/2023 … Oxford Comedy Festival is back with a month of Edinburgh Fringe previews.
Tom Binns sentencing adjourned
Further hearing to be held over his child pornography charges
23/05/2023 … Tom Binns is expected to learn his fate for possessing child pornography in August.
Reginald D Hunter announces 2023 tour
The Man Who Could See Through Shit
23/05/2023 … Reginald D Hunter has announced a new stand-up tour, The Man Who Could See Through Shit.
Mon 22 May 2023
© Rose d'Or Cambridge Footlights introduces 'sensitivity readers'
...and of course John Cleese isn't happy about it
22/05/2023 … The Cambridge Footlights – arguably Britain’s most prolific hothouse for up-and-coming comedians – has launched a ‘sensitivity reading’…
Guy Montgomery wins Sydney Comedy Festival's top prize
22/05/2023 … New Zealand comedian Guy Montgomery has won the top prize at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
Losing Bloods
22/05/2023 … Sky has axed its paramedics comedy Bloods, even though work had already started on a third series.
China bans Nigel Ng from social media
Clampdown against Uncle Roger comedian
22/05/2023 … Nigel Ng’s popular Uncle Roger accounts have been suspended from social media in China in what appears to be the Beijing regime’s latest crackdown…