Royal Court Theatre to host a stand-up season
With David Baddiel, John Kearns, Ahir Shah and more
01/12/2023 … London’s Royal Court Theatre is to host ten days of comedy featuring the likes of David Baddiel, John Kearns, Ahir Shah and Lucy Beaumont.
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Fri 01 December 2023
© Colin Knowles/CC BY-SA 2.0 Terry Gilliam to be honoured at the Slapstick Festival
Director and ex-Python to attend Bristol celebration
01/12/2023 … Terry Gilliam is to attend Bristol’s Slapstick festival of vintage comedy next year, where he will receive an award for his contribution to visual comedy.
Rare Dudley Moore footage to air
...in a C5 documentary about the comedian to be screened this Christmas
01/12/2023 … Footage of Dudley Moore never previously seen on British TV is to be broadcast for the first time.
Thu 30 November 2023
Kieran Hodgson plans a Liz Truss musical
After skewering Prince Andrew, comedian has Britain's shortest-serving PM in his sights
30/11/2023 … Kieran Hodgson is writing a musical about Liz Truss’s short-lived time as Prime Minister.
Fern Brady and Marjolein Robertson top Scotland's cultural power players list
Comics ranked alongside Young Fathers
30/11/2023 … Fern Brady is the second most influential name in Scottish culture – with fellow comedian Marjolein Robertson at number 3.
The Electric Head win Galton & Simpson comedy award
Six scripts to be turned into audio pilots
30/11/2023 … Cult double act The Electric Head have won the first Galton & Simpson Godfathers of Comedy Award.
© Stuart Hogben Russell Kane to become a children's author
...as Evil Genius is renewed and he writes a sitcom about his dad
30/11/2023 … Russell Kane is to become a children’s author.
End of year special for What Just Happened?
Robin Morgan and Kiri Pritchard-McLean's BBC Radio Wales topical panel show
30/11/2023 … BBC Radio Wales has ordered a Christmas special of its satirical comedy panel show What Just Happened? Hosted by Robin Morgan and Kiri Pritchard-McLean, the show…