comedy
The Not So New Comedian of the Year Final takes place at the Museum of Comedy on Friday, June 7.
The 12 mature acts who have made it through the heats have just been announced and are as follows:
Daniel Ruiz Tizon
Danny Matinee (real name Daniel Crewe)
Georgia Thorp
Ian Thomson
JB Carter
Kelly Ford
L J Francis
Leigh White
Richard St
BBC Comedy, BBC Scotland and Screen Scotland have announced that they will co-fund a new narrative comedy pilot to be produced in Scotland and featuring Scottish talent.
This follows a similar pilot opportunity last year which has subsequently led to the series commission of Only Child from Happy Tramp North, written by Bryce Hart and starring Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh. The series is supported by Screen Scotland.
BBC Director of Comedy Jon Petrie today announced the 10 recipients of the supercharged bursary scheme – the BBC Comedy Collective – for mid-level creatives: writers, producers, directors and editors, to develop their careers in scripted comedy.
BBC Director of Comedy, Jon Petrie, today called for the TV industry to save our sitcoms with a focus on protecting homegrown storytelling and creating the next generation of classics, as he announced six new and returning shows.
Speaking at the BBC Comedy Festival taking place this week in Glasgow, Jon confirmed:
The search is about to begin to find 2024’s winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Awards. The hugely popular talent search – with heats televised on BBC Three and iPlayer and the final on BBC One and iPlayer - continues for the 19th year to seek out the best new comedy talent the UK has to offer. Entries open at 10.00 on 20 May, until midnight on 30 June and all the details can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/newcomedyawards.
Romanian comedian and actor Dragos Mostenescu will be bringing his new show Dragos & Friends to the Piano in Smithfield for a residency, starting on Thursday 30th May. The show is a blend of musical comedy and stand-up, freestyling from one act to another with the guests stepping out of their comfort zone and do what they don’t normally do. Sometimes musicians dare to tell jokes and comedians attempt to sing and the results can be unexpectedly bonkers or surprising!
The Falmouth Cringe Comedy Festival has unveiled its biggest programme lineup to date, releasing tickets to 40 comedy performances that will take place from 4 - 7 July across seven venues in Falmouth.
Comedian Ashley Frieze had been planning to make and release an album of comedy songs this year, but wasn’t banking on the sudden availability of Udio.com, which was made available on 10th April this year.
One week after discovering what an AI writing partner could do, Ashley released a 24 track album - Monkey Paw Cowboy, under the pseudonym The Incredible Jukebox.
New Liverpool set comedy G’wed, which launched back in February, has since seen 1.7m viewers for episode 1 across ITVX, ITV1 and ITV2 and the series has been streamed 4.9 million times, becoming ITVX’s biggest comedy since Changing Ends.
G’wed is ITV2’s most watched programme of the year after Love Island and across ITV’s channels, the show is the biggest sitcom launch since Kate and Koji in March 2020.
Armando Iannucci, Jennifer Saunders, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Stefani Robinson and the cast of Two Doors Down are among a stellar line-up of comedy talent taking part in the BBC Comedy Festival in Glasgow on May 22-23.
Now in its third year, following on from the success of Newcastle in 2022 and Cardiff in 2023, the festival is an opportunity to gather the component parts of the comedy industry together and remind people that British comedy is one of our greatest cultural triumphs.
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