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Chris Ramsey to host Series 4 of E4's Virtually Famous
Chris Ramsey is taking over as host of E4 panel show Virtually Famous, with Seann Walsh, Vicky Pattison and Scarlett Moffatt the show's new regular line-up.
British Comedy Guide, 14th November 2016The Defining the Norm Awards: the nominees
Comedian Will Franken honours the most conformist acts at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Will Franken, Spiked, 25th August 2016Comedians' shows pulled over unpaid bills
Josh Widdicombe, Jeremy Hardy, Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi and Marcus Brigstocke have all had gigs dropped from the forthcoming programme of Secombe Theatre in Sutton because of the dispute with very little notice. Widdicombe was due to play there only next week. Their agency, Off The Kerb, axed the shows in a row over £3,432 of box office money they say they are owed for another of their clients, Mark Steel, three months ago.
Chortle, 11th August 201650 must-see comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe (Link expired)
Here at WOW 247 we've pooled together our comedy brains to pick out a whopping 50 shows we think make a good starting point for any Fringe adventurer.
Matthew Dunne-Miles, Finlay Greig and Craig Leiper, WOW247, 2nd August 2016Comedians 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 2016Fears raised over future of Monkeyshine comedy festival
Middlesbrough's Stewart Park was set to host Monkeyshine festival in July, but tickets no longer on sale online.
Ian Johnson, Teesside Gazette, 30th June 2016Review: Sky Arts Irish Comedy Shorts
Sky Arts has made a bit of a name for itself recently giving new and familiar talent a platform in pithy short films. They've done it before and they have done it again with a new selection of Ireland-based quickies.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th June 2016Sky Arts '...In Ireland' shorts reviewed
Sky Arts must be pleased with the results of their latest round of comedy short films, unveiled at the Cat Laughs Festival in Kilkenny this weekend. Though each Irish-themed offering was shot in a day, there's not a duffer among the six, with almost all the comics featured drawing directly on dubious episodes from their lives.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 5th June 2016Opinion: mainstream v alternative - is the gap closing?
We live in interesting times for comedy. I never thought I'd see Sara Pascoe on The Graham Norton Show. Maybe the gap is closing between what we describe as alternative and what we describe as mainstream. Maybe one of the legacies of Comedy Vehicle is that it did attract comedy fans to more cerebral notions of the nature of comedy. Sadly not enough for BBC2's beancounters.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 11th May 2016C4 Comedy Gala, review
Rattling through a conveyor belt of more than twenty comedians, this marathon event had one-liners flying so thick and fast it started to become exhausting, says Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 9th May 2016