Reginald D Hunter announces 2021 tour
Bombe Shuffleur to hit the road in April
27/10/2020 … Reginald D Hunter has announced a 35-date tour for next spring and summer.
Tue 27 October 2020
Paddy Raff and Soft Border Patrol up for RTS award
Northern Ireland nominees announced
27/10/2020 … Mockumentary Soft Border Patrol and sketch pilot The Paddy Raff Show have been shortlisted for best scripted comedy in the Royal Television Society awards for Northern…
Mon 26 October 2020
Filming starts on Kitty Flanagan's Australian sitcom
Comic plays a probate lawyer in Fisk
26/10/2020 … Filming has started on Kitty Flanagan’s Australian sitcom, in which the stand-up plays a lawyer forced to take a job at a ‘shabby suburban firm specialising…
Tue 20 October 2020
Avalon buys into another talent management firm
Taking a majority stake in The Agency
20/10/2020 … Comedy management and production company Avalon has bought a majority stake in fellow talent company The Agency.
Just For Laughs hails digital success
20/10/2020 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival is hailing its 2020 digital version a success, after attracting 778,000 viewers worldwide.
Mon 19 October 2020
Simon Pegg mourns his producer
Miles Ketley dies at 52, days before Truth Seekers launches
19/10/2020 … Miles Ketley, the chief executive of Simon Pegg’s and Nick Frost’s production company, Stolen Picture, has unexpectedly died at the age of 52.
Fri 16 October 2020
When Sean Hughes won the Perrier
Rare footage unearthed on the third anniversary of his death
16/10/2020 … Rare footage of Sean Hughes performing in Edinburgh on the year he won the Perrier has been unearthed on the third anniversary of his death.
Who's on the Big Zuu’s Big Eats Christmas special?
Comics reunite with the grime star
16/10/2020 … The guests have been announced for the two Christmas specials of Big Zuu’s Big Eats.