Press clippings
Graeme Garden wins Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Audio Awards
The winners at the BBC Audio Drama Awards include Graeme Garden, Sarah Keyworth, Where To, Mate?, Trust, Mark Heap and Cracking.
British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2024BBC Audio Awards 2024 nominees
Call Jonathan Pie, Kat Sadler's Screen Time, Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Mockery Manor, She Stoops To Conquer and Where To, Mate? are amongst the nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2023Lady Bigfoot review
It could be straight out of Jane Austen: a girl is infatuated by a boy from afar but dare not declare her love for fear of being ostracised by what society might say. Only this girl is a yeti with a penchant for knitting, who'd be driven out of her home in the Welsh woodlands if exposed by the amateur cryptozoologist on her tail.
Chortle, 5th July 2023BBC New Comedy Award winner Anna Thomas & Paul Allen pilot new shorts
BBC New Comedy Award winner Anna Thomas and Paul Allen, one of the writers of The Cleaner, have made Lady Bigfoot and Grandfather Rights, new comedy shorts for BBC Wales.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd June 2023Tribute show announced for Gareth Richards
The show will take place at the Big Belly Comedy Club in London this Monday, May 22. Appearing on the night will be Jason Manford, Milton Jones, Tim Vine, Andrew White, Junior Simpson and Jo Enright. The compere will be Geoff Whiting.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 17th May 2023Review - Where To, Mate?
Much fuss was made earlier this month when it was announced that the BBC was remaking Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologues with a new cast. Well, with a lot less fanfare, this low-key Radio 4 quarter-hour comedy occupies similar comedy, territory with wry and revealing character-led conversations, all taking place on cab journeys around Manchester.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 13th May 2020New festival explores the funny side of faith
Medieval church will host a day of humour and standup routines.
Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian, 10th February 2019The Comedians at the King's - live review
Whether the screen version of The Comedians at the King's will change the minds of those who decides who appears on existing TV stand-up and panel shows is probably open to question, given how such programmes are often about developing relationships with emerging talent more than showcasing a tight ten honed over years on the circuit.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd March 2018Porters: preview
Dave has only dipped its toe in the water with a commission of three episodes, but the results from this test are back - and the prognosis for Porters is definitely good.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 20th September 2017Comedians recall their first gigs
Shappi Khorsandi felt as if she'd walked on the moon. Isy Suttie watched a man change a dressing on a wound as she spoke. Omid Djalili fell off the stage. So how did the first gigs of Paul Merton, Susan Calman and other top comics go?
Chris Wiegand and Anna Menin, The Guardian, 1st August 2016