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Frog & Bucket to host first post-covid indoor comedy
Manchester's Frog and Bucket comedy club has been chosen to produce a pilot live comedy show on Wednesday 29 July ahead of other venues opening on Saturday 1 August. The evening will be a showcase and fundraiser for the Women in Comedy Festival with the all female line consisting of Shazia Mirza, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Barbara Nice and Ola Labib.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th July 2020
John Cleese: cancel culture takes the fun out of life
John Cleese does not have much time for political correctness or cancel culture, and as for the state of the world? It's completely hopeless, the former Monty Python star says.
Rollo Ross, Reuters, 24th July 2020
Frankie Boyle review: Appalling, vicious, clarty
In the week censors ruled Billy Connolly's sweary words were not aggressive, were not meant to insult anyone and therefore shouldn't be X-rated, his heir apparent as Britain's funniest man picked up the effing ball and ran with it.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 24th July 2020
Tim Minchin & Tom Allen working on the TV BAFTAs
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced that Tim Minchin will be opening and closing this year's star-studded Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards 2020 with a special musical performance.
Ahead of the BBC One show, comedian Tom Allen is also announced today as host of the Virgin Media BAFTA TV Pre-Show, which will stream live on BAFTA's social channels (YouTube, Twitter and Facebook) from 18:00 BST, leading up to the main event.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th July 2020
No joke: ironic racism in comedy is just not funny
From Matt Lucas and David Walliams's Little Britain to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, the idea that it's OK to be racist to mock racism is naive and dangerous
Jason Okundaye, The Guardian, 24th July 2020
Comedians indoors getting creative: part 19
Includes performances from Stevie Martin, Jen Brister, Maureen Younger and Allyson June Smith.
Funny Women, 24th July 2020
Jimeoin interview
Heckling can be great - as long as they know when to shut up.
The Guardian, 24th July 2020
Frankie Boyle review
For the master of the savage one-liner, stomping on sensibilities, Boyle remains deeper than his vicious reputation, with complexity of thought and a surprising variety of material, of which the nastier lines are but one part, crucial as they are.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 24th July 2020
Funeral tributes to actor and comedian Johnny Beattie
The funeral has taken place of actor and comedian Johnny Beattie, who died two weeks ago aged 93.
BBC, 24th July 2020
EdFringe board: noms open
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has opened nominations for the three vacant places on its board of directors and announced a September date for its 2020 AGM.
Thom Dibdin, All Edinburgh Theatre, 24th July 2020
Famalam's Gbemisola Ikumelo on comedy in a new age
'The joke has to be with the marginalised. They have to be the authors of those jokes. It's their pain!'
Josh Smith, Glamour Magazine, 24th July 2020Leo Kearse: I've experienced cancel culture first hand
I'm a comedian and I've experienced the insidious and self defeating effect of cancel culture first hand.
Leo Kearse, Free Market Conservatives, 24th July 2020Videos
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7:15am10 min
Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
Series 2, Episode 10 - BertiesittingEager to prove her babysitting ability, Gran is on the hunt for a baby stand-in.
9am27 min
No More Jockeys
Set 1, Episode 7 - Set 1, Game 7Alex, Tim and Mark have won two games each in this opening set as they play the second game of Wonder Thursday.
10:45am15 min
The Debrief
Episode 5In the aftermath of Hannah's 40th birthday party, Hannah and Mark assess the carnage, huddled up high in the family treehouse.
11:30am30 min
Relativity
Series 3, Episode 2Jane leaves husband Pete and goes to stay with her parents - throwing Ken and Margaret's weekly milk order into chaos. Pete struggles to hold the fort at home, but fails to notice 17-year-old Holly going off to join Extinction Rebellion. Ian and Chloe struggle to get baby Don to stop crying.
1:30pm30 min
Breaking The News
Series 16, Episode 5Felicity Ward, Neil Delamere, Susan Riddell and Lewis Macleod are the guests this week.
6:30pm30 min
Summer Comedy Festival
Episode 1 - Miles JuppMiles Jupp is our host as he takes us around his bespoke festival site to meet Val McDermid in the literary tent, Abandoman on the music stage and Test Match Special's very own Alison Mitchell in the Cricket Tent (of course there's a cricket tent, it's Miles Jupp we're talking about). Paul Sinha also attempts to run a quiz in the Trivia Tent and stand-up legend Simon Munnery entertains from a field.
8:30pm30 min
Jack Whitehall's Sporting Nation
Episode 3 - Cult of the UnderdogJack takes a comedic sprint through British sport's greatest underdog moments, from Leicester City's incredible Premier League win in 2016 and Kelly Holmes' double Olympic triumph in 2004, to a certain Northern Irish snooker player with odd-looking glasses whose World Championship victory gripped the nation in 1985.
8:30pm30 min
TV Flashback
Series 3, Episode 4 - Law And OrderTudur Owen searches for clues about crime in Wales. He uncovers a story of canine cops, police badgers and vigilante ferrets, full of lively characters from the nation's TV past.