On The Jonathan Ross Show there's an exclusive chat with Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards ahead of her solo music debut, legendary comedian Frank Skinner, Emmy-Award winning Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham, Strictly star Johannes Radebe, plus the BRIT-Award winning and multi-platinum selling Kasabian performing in the studio.
Frank Skinner is always a brilliant chat show guest - as well as a chat show host, he had his own show at one point. He was recently in the news when it was announced that his Absolute Radio show would be coming to an end. It happened to coincide with him being nominated for an ARIAS award by the Radio Academy.
More importantly Skinner is a brilliant stand-up comedian. I'd say that his latest show, Thirty Years Of Dirt was a return to form, but that would suggest that his form had dipped, which I don't think it ever has. In his new show he tries not to be as filthy as he once was but when I saw it last summer a bit of innuendo did slip in. Skinner has already had a run in London's West End and has recently announced another run this August. go see. Details here.
Skinner’s live career began in 1987 when he spent £400 of his last £435 booking a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Four years later in 1991 he returned to the city and beat fellow nominees Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard to take home comedy’s most prestigious prize, The Perrier Award. He was appointed an MBE by the Princess Royal, Anne, for his services to entertainment in April 2023.
Away from the stage, the last few years have seen Frank host the Big Hay Weekend on Sky Arts in 2022, and present three mini-series for the channel with author Denise Mina, Boswell and Johnson’s Scottish Road Trip in 2020, Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Romantic Road Trip in 2021 and most recently Skinner and Mina’s Literary Road Trip: Pope and Swift.
In April 2020, Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast was launched to critical acclaim with a sixth series released earlier this year. Off the back of this, the highly acclaimed book How to Enjoy Poetry was published in September 2020. His latest non-fiction, A Comedian’s Prayer Book, was published in April of 2021 and released in paperback in April 2023. In July 2022, the South Bank Show aired an episode in honour of his career.
Hannah Waddingham is best known these days for her role in Ted Lasso but before then she played played Septa Unella in Game of Thrones. Her most well-known scene involved her clanging a bell and chanting the word “shame” while Lena Headey’s Cersei Lannister was paraded naked through the streets.
The Jonathan Ross Show, Saturday, April 13, 10.05pm, ITV1
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