Review: Slow Horses, Season Six, Apple TV

As I write there's a moderately heated discussion on social media about whether Slow Horses is funny any more. I've not reviewed it here in the past because i've never seen it as a comedy. But the showrunner until this series was former stand-up comedian and Thick Of It actor Will Smith so it...

Review
Joanne McNally And Chris O'Dowd Chip In To Bill Murray's Golf Series

BBC Two, BBC Northern Ireland and iPlayer have released exclusive first-look images of Bill Murray as he joined by his extended family, including Joel and John Murray, celebrity friends Chris O’Dowd, Joanne McNally, and Jason Kelce, and...

News
Review: Widow's Bay, Apple TV+

I've occasionally been late to a party but never as late as this. I gave Widow's Bay a fairly wide berth when it landed earlier this year because it didn't seem like a comedy. But this week its star Matthew Rhys scooped an Emmy for Lead actor in a comedy series for his performance...

Review
Comedian Rumpel Has Died
The comedian-clown-jester known to many in the comedy world simply as Rumpel or Rumple has died. Peter Simms wrote: "Crikey goose. I've some really sad news. The worlds greatest fool ever and an...
News
BBC Comedy and Liverpool Film Office Launch Project to Discover Liverpool’s Next Comedy Talent
Following the success of the BBC Comedy Festival in Liverpool in May, BBC Comedy and the Liverpool Film Office have partnered to launch the BBC Comedy Liverpool Script Development project. Part of...
News
Channel 4 has released the trailer for Break Clause, a new six-part romantic comedy series starring Samuel Bottomley (How to Have Sex) and Lara Ricote (Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping). Break...
News
New Comedy Podcast Revisits World's Biggest Scandals
What makes a scandal a scandal? Why do some stories bring down governments while others become national obsessions for a week and then disappear? And, in an age of online pile-ons, public apologies...
News
Who Is the Mystery Comedian In Creep? The Plot Thickens As It Heads to London
One of the most talked about shows at the Edinburgh Fringe this year was Harriet Richardson's Creep at the Pleasance Courtyard. Richardson is a performance artist rather than a stand-up comedian but...
News
Zircon - This is a contributing Drupal Theme
Design by WeebPal.