comedy
Next Friday sees the return of the Nottingham Comedy Festival. Taking place between Friday 1st to Sunday 10th November this is the 16th annual Comedy Festival brings together a wide selection of fantastic acts.
10 days of comedy across 18 venues. Over 130 comedians are bringing their shows to give us all some light hearted fun. From stand-up, improvisation, sketch shows, alternative comedy to musical comedy and podcasts.
Acts include:
Asian American comedian Atsuko Okatsuka has announced the UK leg of her global comedy tour with three dates this February at the O2 Academy Glasgow on 20th, the Manchester Academy on 21st and London’s Eventim Apollo on 22nd. This follows the huge success of her HBO special ‘The Intruder’, directed by Tig Notaro, which will be available to watch on Sky UK starting in December. ‘The Full Grown’ is her first comedy tour and has already performed to sold out theatres in 56 cities in 12 countries so far.
Sylvain Parent-Bédard, President and Founder of ComediHa! and the new owner of Just For Laughs (acquired in June 2024) has announced that ComediHa! Fest-Québec will now operate under the Just For Laughs Festival - Quebec brand. This marks a new era for the comedy event in the city, where the head office of the Quebec entrepreneur’s new group is based.
Starting on 29th November, comedy fans will be able to enjoy a new addition to Radio 4’s Friday Night Comedy lineup: The Naked Week, presented by podcast host and satirist Andrew Hunter Murray and co-written and produced by The Skewer’s Jon Holmes.
The Naked Week is a fresh way of dressing the week’s news in the altogether and parading it around for everyone to laugh at.
Comedian Mark Felgate and co-presenter of The Gadget Show Jason Bradbury have launched a kickstarter campaign to raise £50,000 to make a movie entitled Ctrl AI Delete in which gamers take on Artificial Intelligence
BBC Northern Ireland has commissioned five new comedy shorts from Nice One Productions.
They will debut on October 7, as part of its on-going commitment to develop and nurture new comedy acting, writing and production talent.
The shorts will be available in their entirety on BBC iPlayer from Monday 7 October at 6am, and weekly on BBC One Northern Ireland from October 7 at 11.35pm.
Hull Trains has showcased its dedication to supporting arts and culture in East Yorkshire by turning a train carriage into a special pop-up comedy club.
The exciting Hull Trains ‘Comedy Carriage’, which received a brilliant response from customers on the 11:48 service from London King’s Cross to Hull, was created to celebrate a new partnership with Hull Comedy Festival.
British Comedy Guide are pleased to announce the return of The Comedians’ Choice Awards to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This year, thanks to generous support from Angel Comedy and The Museum of Comedy, there will be a prize fund, with the winners of Best Show and Best Newcomer Awards each receiving a cash prize to help with the cost of their Edinburgh Fringe accommodation.
There will be three awards:
Best Show - The best comedy show at the Fringe as voted by comedians.
Introducing New Zealand comedian, psychiatrist and author Dr Jo Prendergast who makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut with ‘The Cool Mum’ at the Gilded Balloon. The show is aimed at anyone who has been a parent or a child, and is a parody of a personal development seminar. She has also written a book for parents on teenage mental health, ‘When Life Sucks’.
Filming is underway in Northern Ireland for a brand new series of fish out of water, live action comedy, Pickle Storm. The first series is coming soon to CBBC and BBC iPlayer with ten further episodes already commissioned.
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