Bill Bailey's double skydive
17/08/2020 … Bill Bailey has thrown himself out a plane twice in just over a week The comic has done two tandem skydives, the first at 10,000ft – with 30 seconds of…
Mon 17 August 2020
Sun 16 August 2020
Short of an audience? Send in the clones
Darren Walsh performs to a sold-out crowd - of himselves
16/08/2020 … Is it the perfect audience - or the worst? Darren Walsh has performed a gig to a crowd comprising entirely of clones of himself.
Fri 14 August 2020
© Kamoompics Can you burn a salad?
14/08/2020 … Tweets of the week A customer has just bought a 2021 calendar.
Thu 13 August 2020
Keith Lemon stung by Mel Sykes criticism
War of words over his 'limited vocabulary' when it comes to women
13/08/2020 … Keith Lemon creator Leigh Francis has hit back at presenter Melanie Sykes, after she slammed his alter-ego for the way he treats women.
Wed 12 August 2020
American network chiefs fail in their ratings task...
Dumping Taskmaster didn't boost the CW's audience
12/08/2020 … The American network executives’ decision to axe Taskmaster after just one episode has had almost zero effect on their ratings.
© Markus Spiske/Pexels If computers made Edinburgh Fringe shows..
An AI bot is generating some fake titles and blurbs - but are they any weirder than the real thing?
12/08/2020 … There may not be an Edinburgh Fringe show this year, but hundreds of shows are still being generated.
Fri 07 August 2020
'Avoiding it like the plague...'
07/08/2020 … Tweets of the week So what do we use as a phrase instead of: 'Avoiding it like the plague' now that we know that a lot of people don't, in fact,…
Thu 06 August 2020
How Doc Brown was ALMOST in Star Wars
Comic got down the last two for Lando Calrissian role
06/08/2020 … Ben Bailey Smith – better known on the stand-up circuit as Doc Brown – has revealed how he almost landed a major part in the Star Wars franchise,…