Sara Pascoe
Sara Pascoe is launching a new monthly literary salon in London. Sara Pascoe’s Literary Salon will take place downstairs at The Book Club in Shoreditch.
Pascoe came up with the idea for this event after being inspired by the intimate space downstairs at The Book Club, which seats no more than 70. Sara’s Literary Salon will see fictional and long dead writers perform stories, poems and plays with audience participation around the night’s theme strongly encouraged.
The comedy stage has become a regular fixture on the musical festival circuit. The Reading and Leeds festivals might be best known for their rock acts but this year their comedy stage is stronger than ever. The attractions include US star of C4’s Catastrophe Rob Delaney, Seann Walsh, one-liner king Milton Jones and motormouth Russell Kane
So just when you thought every last comic pip had been squeezed out of the election here comes Frankie Boyle. The too-hot-for-mainstream-TV Scot is joined by the so-hot-they-are-on-everything twosome of Sara Pascoe and Katherine Ryan for this iPlayer discussion following the success of their previous online outing, Referendum Autopsy.
Sara Pascoe has been nominated for the Times/South Bank Breakthrough Award.
The other nominees are actor Luke Pasqualino, classical musician Luke Bedford, visual artist James Capper, opera tenor Nicky Spence, actor Gugu Mbatha-Raw, dancer Francesca Hayward, musician LoneLady, writer Emma Healey and theatre group 1927.
Pascoe was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award last August and was recently seen in BBC comedy W1A
To mark Valentine’s Day the BBC commissioned a selection of romantic shorts from the likes of Bill Bailey, Matt Berry, Romesh Ranganathan, Sara Pascoe, Limmy, Nick Helm, Modern Toss, Russ Abbot and Katy Wix. You hopefully had better things to do than watch iPlayer yesterday, but now is a good chance to catch up. Beyond The Joke will be reviewing them over the next few days.
On Friday 13 February, nine original comedy shorts will go live on BBC iPlayer to mark Valentine’s Day, featuring Bill Bailey, Matt Berry, Romesh Ranganathan, Sara Pascoe, Limmy, Nick Helm, Modern Toss, Russ Abbot and Katy Wix. Each comedian has each created a short Funny Valentine to bring their unique take on the international day of love.
Is the BBC so scared of Frankie Boyle offending viewers that they have banished him to iPlayer for this one-off post-mortem? Or have they decided that now that the Scottish Referendum is done and dusted not enough people are interested in the subject to warrant putting this out in the traditional way? Or maybe it’s a sneaky plan to drive viewers online. I’d have certainly thought this semi-serious talking shop deserved to be aired on Scottish television.
The nominations for the 2014 Foster’s Comedy Awards have been announced. They are as follows:
Sara Pascoe
James Acaster
John Kearns
Liam Williams
Alex Horne
Romesh Ranganathan
Sam Simmons
I was talking to Sara Pascoe yesterday about the stresses and strains of getting an Edinburgh show right in time and she said that one of the hardest aspects – apart from making it funny – was coming up with an ending. I raised the name of rising star John Robins who I saw at the very start of the 2013 Fringe.
Pretty spoilt for choice at the Soho Theatre this week. As well as Stewart Lee doing yet more work-in-progress shows, there are two very different shows opening on Tuesday. I haven't seen Tom Rosenthal do stand-up for a while now but I’ve seen plenty of him on television.
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