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Ivo Graham, comedian tour datesEton and Oxford-educated Ivo Graham won the 2009 So You Think You're Funny new act competition, at the age of just 18. He was nominated for best newcomer in the 2010 ...
As an interactive, randomised sketch show where anything could happen it encompasses the energy of the Fringe, and that’s why we want to debut in Edinburgh.’ May has been a the Fringe before with her ...
With regards to self-discovery it’s probably the fact that I’m a real billy-big-bollocks on stage and am incredibly confident. It’s not like in real life I’m a wallflower but I think maybe I used to ...
Here’s Channel 4’s new format A Short Walk To The Pub with Alexander Ubiquitous. It’s a sketch from Michael Spicer’s new online sketch show, Media Studies, which is available here: ...
American comedy talk show institution The ​Late Show with Stephen Colbert is to end in May, the CBS network has unexpectedly announced. Executives said the surprise move was a ‘purely a financial ...
Channel 4 has dropped Bridget Christie ’s comedy The Change, despite the comedian’s plans to end the story with a third series. She said the news came as a ‘huge blow’ – but said she hoped to be able ...
Ardal O’Hanlon is writing two new Irish-set crime novels. The first, A Plot To Die For, will be released in May, with publishers Simon & Schuster already committed to its follow-up.
A major new documentary about Joan Rivers will tap into hundreds of hours of previously unheard comedy recordings. Makers of the feature-length film have been given unprecedented access to the ...
The Lying Game: The comics must each tell an anecdote about the same randomly selected topic. However, while five of them are telling a true story, two of them are lying through their teeth. Their ...
Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast is to return for an 11th series, it has been announced today. Launching on all the major platforms on July 23, the new episodes will again feature the comedian offering ...
Britain's first female Chancellor was last year told it would cost £8,000 to take out the offending item – and that it was once used by Winston Churchill – so it has remained in place. Treasury ...
Edinburgh Fringe venue Gilded Balloon has launched its Postcode Pals scheme for a second year, offering local residents discounted festival tickets.