Let's sell this gig out!

Michael Legge urges us to give each of these great comics a crowd surge. We'll be at these shows at these times... come with us!

Do the Right Thing, the jolly panel-show podcast, is back. Now on its sixth series (crikey), and hosted by Danielle Ward, it is not only a right thing but a good one too. More manic and edgy than the traditional radio panel-show offering, but not so much that it makes you think the dread word "wacky", the programme's guests last week were Richard Osman and Shappi Khorsandi. Khorsandi was her usual, likably haphazard self, and I am very much enjoying Osman's recent transformation from televisual factoid guy into one of the funniest men in media. He really does make me laugh. Regulars Michael Legge (grumpy, funny) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (cheerful, funny) are excellent, and Ward (acerbic, funny) is too. Her opening line, about putting an Egyptian mummy into an old people's home, immediately informed listeners that they weren't in 6.30pm-Radio-4-land any more. Plus, because of the joy of podcasts, each episode can carry on for as long as it wants to. Lovely.

Behind the Scenes, The Alternative Comedy Experience

Four comedians talk about their experiences in The Alternative Comedy Experience, a recording of alternative Fringe Festival acts, put together by Stewart Lee.

Michael Legge: telling it like it is

We decided weeks before the Festival began that this would be the year when we finally got round to chatting to TW favourite Michael Legge, here on the pages of your Three Weeks magazine. He's back with his new show Tell It Like It Is, Steve. "What's the bloody point of anything ever? I don't know" runs the blurb. This was all going to be so perfect. Then we forgot to organise the interview.

Sell This Gig Out, an Edinburgh initiative

Sell This Gig Out is Michael Legge's initiative, which he has been utilising in recent years to allow groups of comics and comedy fans to promote shows through various social networking platforms. The idea is simple enough: Legge has summoned together a network of people who are willing to help each other, and, of course, who would be grateful for any help they may too receive. The group have been focussing on one comedian's show per day so far but are also constantly recommending other shows to attend as well as attending them themselves, beginning as they mean to go on, by completely selling out Angela Barnes' first show of the run.

Interview: rarely asked questions - Michael Legge

Irishman Michael Legge is a riddle trapped inside an engima. Or something.

PBH responds to questions from Michael Legge

Michael Legge has just posted the following on Facebook. It does address some questions, particular the one about why PBH can't just take over the existing programme...

Michael Legged pulls out of gig because of UKIP

Michael Legge has pulled out of a festival booking after he discovered that a UKIP representative would also be at the same event. UKIP's invite has since been withdrawn.

UK's first Vegan Comedy Festival announced

Dig out your tofu jokes, stand by with quinoa quips, next month the UK's first Vegan Comedy Festival will open in Brighton. Twenty comedians will appear over the course of the two-day event, every one of them vegan. The comedy festival is an off-shoot of VegfestUK, a celebration of all things vegan - cookery demonstrations, food stalls, talks, speed-dating - which is now in its 13th year. The odd vegan stand-up like Sara Pascoe, Lucy Porter or Dave Spikey has appeared at the festival in the past, but this will be the first time there has been a dedicated comedy event. Carl Donnelly, Michael Legge, Andrew O'Neill and Harriet Kemsley are among the established names and up-and-comers who will perform as audiences enjoy vegan beer and hotdogs from the bar.