Press clippings
Stewart Lee: Context is vital. That's why I'm filming everything I say and do from now on
As Gideon Falter's standoff with the police demonstrates, it's important to be able to see the bigger picture.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 28th April 2024Jason Manford helps raise thousands for primary school playground appeal
The famous entertainer headlined a sell-out comedy evening for Crooksbarn Primary School at The Moline Cross - home of Norton Cricket Club where over £5,000 was raised.
Teesside Gazette, 28th April 202440 years of comedy classic Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
It's four decades since the comedy drama detailing the exploits of British migrant workers in Germany burst on to our screens. As they stage a live show, its writers and stars let us in on how they constructed a classic.
Nick Duerden, The Guardian, 27th April 2024And now for the pinchline: competition crowns world's funniest crab joke
Inaugural contest at Crab Museum in Margate allows crustaceans to pick the winner, with the help of tinned fish used as bait.
Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 27th April 2024John Cleese: Basil Fawlty would be bewildered by the country England has become - and so am I
As Fawlty Towers returns, its creator considers what has changed - from trans athletes to trigger warnings - and how BBC comedy lost its way.
John Cleese, The Telegraph, 26th April 2024Grainne Maguire: I'm a leftie, he likes Priti Patel: how I fell for my Tory boy
Can you make a relationship work when you're on opposite sides of the political divide? Yes, so long as you don't mention Brexit
Grainne Maguire and Mehul Shah, The Times, 26th April 2024Joe and Katherine's Bargain Holidays review
The TV travelogue sinks lower.
Carol Midgley, The Times, 25th April 2024Joe & Katherine's Bargain Holidays review
What was Katherine Ryan thinking with this patronising travelogue?
Rachael Sigee, i Newspaper, 25th April 2024Joe & Katherine's Bargain Holidays review
Comedians slum it with a "spa day" in a pub car park.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 25th April 2024Joe & Katherine's Bargain Holidays review
Comedians gave us little to laugh about on this boring bargain break.
Roland White, Daily Mail, 25th April 2024Love Actually and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child
An original shooting script of much-loved Christmas romcom Love Actually is among the lots up for grabs in an auction to support charity War Child.
Catherine Shoard, The Guardian, 25th April 2024Jack Whitehall's comedy slammed - by Prince William
During a school visit this morning, the future king was asked to share a "dad joke", to which he responded: "I'm kind of trying to channel Jack Whitehall, because most of his jokes are pretty dad-like."
Chortle, 25th April 2024New interactive map to demonstrate Scotland's love for Billy Connolly
In 2023, National Theatre of Scotland's acclaimed production celebrating Scotland's most loved comedian, Sir Billy Connolly, undertook a 17-venue Scotland tour, reaching over 8,000 people. Originally announced to mark Connolly's 80th birthday year, Dear Billy was enthusiastically received by audiences, selling-out at venues across Scotland.
Craig Williams, The Herald, 25th April 2024Sir Michael Palin to receive honorary Oxford degree
Comedy and television legend Sir Michael Palin is one of six people who will be awarded with honorary degrees from the University of Oxford.
Ethan Gudge, BBC, 25th April 2024Mammoth review
This 70s relic crashes through life like Alan Partridge in a tracksuit.
Roland White, Daily Mail, 25th April 2024Bridget Jones 4 storyline revealed
Renee Zellweger will date a toyboy 28 years younger in the next Bridget Jones movie.
The star, 55 today, will lock lips with Netflix heart-throb Leo Woodall in Mad About The Boy.
Ellie Henman, The Sun, 24th April 2024Terry & June slapped with major warning over language
ITV advised viewers on its streaming service that the TV classic, which was originally shown in the early evening, had "discriminatory language".
Tom Bryant, The Mirror, 24th April 2024Ashley Storrie: "Comedy was the only thing I was fit for."
Here she tells us how she went from showy child to Dinosaur.
Ashley Storrie, Square Mile, 24th April 2024Frank Skinner reveals his opinion on cancel culture as he weighs in on woke debate
Frank had a less outspoken approach as he joked: 'It's not like I am sitting and thinking "Oh I can't use my 40 minutes of racist material" I just want to go out and people have a good time.'
Kirsten Murray, Daily Mail, 24th April 2024Joe Lycett is so wrong about cancel culture
For every comedian who is publicly cancelled, a hundred more are quietly censoring themselves, writes Simon Evans.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 24th April 2024Harry Enfield's plans for his Loadsamoney £11 million home horrify the Notting Hill set
His talent for invention once seemed unstoppable, inspiring a cast of richly ludicrous characters, from Stavros the kebab shop owner and DJ 'Smashie' to Kevin the teenager and, perhaps most memorably of all, Loadsamoney, the shamelessly avaricious plasterer. But I can disclose that Harry Enfield's latest creative effort has been condemned not merely as 'perfectly foul' - a verdict bestowed on his various television personas by his own father - but as 'harmful' and 'damaging'.
Richard Eden, Daily Mail, 23rd April 2024With her Netflix comedy special Autistic Bikini Queen, Fern Brady is a cynic to savour
The huge success of her memoir has turbocharged the Scottish comedian's career, with midlife, Catholicism and marriage in her withering sights.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 23rd April 2024John Cleese shares staggering £17k secret to 'not looking bad for 84'
John Cleese has revealed he is forking out up to £17,000 a year for an anti-ageing treatment.
The 84-year-old Fawlty Towers star claimed the hefty fee was "worth it if you're buying yourself a few extra years".
Joe Davies, The Sun, 23rd April 2024Rhod Gilbert on finding comedy in his cancer treatment
"I suppose it's not the most attractive documentary to pitch to a broadcaster, is it? Saying, 'we don't know what the ending is going to be! It could be quite... dark'."
Ella Christian-Sims, Royal Television Society, 23rd April 2024TikTok comic Charley Marlowe revealed as voiceover artist for new BBC Three series
Charley Marlowe has been announced as the voice of BBC Three series, I Kissed A Girl. Charley is a Liverpudlian LGBTQ+ presenter and comedian best known from TikTok for her hilarious, down to earth personality and comedic presenting style.
BBC, 22nd April 2024Ivo Graham pushes Rosie Jones round the London Marathon in 3hrs 36min
Maisie Adam, Esther Manito, Joel Dommett and Romesh Ranganathan also completed the race.
Chortle, 22nd April 2024Joe Pasquale: 'I can't afford to retire after losing nearly everything on a dodgy investment'
The actor and comedian on his family, career and financial troubles.
Angela Wintle, The Telegraph, 21st April 2024Dinosaur review
The show sometimes skips too lightly through potentially deeper moments that could have lent it more grit and substance.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 21st April 2024Stewart Lee - Andrew Neil needs to be more Vorderman, less Voldemort
Larger-than-life TV personalities should be using their fame to highlight the connections between thinktanks, media outlets and policymakers - not pretend they don't exist.
Stewart Lee, The Observer, 21st April 2024Britain's Got Talent's Bobby Goldfinn 'unmasked' as TikTok star Bobby Finn
Britain's Got Talent's most annoying contestant ever, Bobby Goldfinn, has been unmasked as an ordinary bloke from America.
Felicity Cross, The Sun, 20th April 2024