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Last Saturday, it was announced that Comedy Club 4 Kids had won the Victoria Wood prize at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. (Glorious! Ridiculous! Something something the Rule Of Three!) Co-director ...
John Cleese is planning a second Fawlty Towers stage show following the success of the first. The play based on three classic episodes ends its West End run in a fortnight before heading off on a ...
Tim Vine has recorded a new football anthem for his beloved Sutton United. U Army! (I Am You) is the second track he’s written for the South London club, following Rock Your Tambourine for the ...
Sky has axed Rob Beckett's Smart TV as the panel show format continues to wane. The programme launched on Sky Max in February 2024 also featured team captains Josh Widdicombe and Alison Hammond and ...
Romesh Ranganathan’s latest travelogue series – in which he ‘fact-checks’ his own stand-up material – is to air on Sky next month. Can’t Knock The Hustle kicks off with Ranganathan’s latest stand-up ...
Michael McIntyre has made his WWE debut. The comedian stepped into the ring as a masked wrestler at Manchester's AO Arena on Tuesday night. He appeared as part of a duo called the Manchester Maniacs ...
Channel 4 has announced three new comedy shorts, from 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Award winners Rob Copland and Joe Kent-Walters, plus actor-playwright Tatenda Shamiso. All are part of the broadcaster’s ...
A Tony Hancock show unseen for almost 70 years is to be released on YouTube after being deemed too offensive to air on regular TV. Vintage Freeview channel Rewind TV is currently airing the comedian's ...
The hour also encompasses how the comic was inspired by Olivia Newton John's Xanadu, first heard on an album of female artists when she was seven years old, the difficulty of explaining Mr Blobby to ...
Sean Finegan – the 'Foil' in Foil Arms and Hog – encounters a former teacher as an adult in this latest video sketch from the Irish sketch trio. Sean 'Hog' Flanagan plays the teacher, surprised to ...
BBC One is to air Apple TV+’s hit comedy Trying. The corporation has bought the right to the show starring real-life partners Rafe Spall and Esther Smith as a couple struggling with infertility.
Tiff Stevenson has lured her audience here under false pretences, with a sultry poster and a title, Post-Coital, that suggests sexy times. But as she enters middle age and her 17-year relationship ...