Top comic Frankie Boyle revealed in his semi regular mailout last week:

Oh dear. Had to quit my Daily Record column over a moral disagreement. We disagreed over whether it was ok to make jokes about a dead child molestor. Here is the whole column, big love my niggers, Frankie x

Here then are Frankie’s legendary Michael Jackson death jokes…

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Thanks to online promotion of the new Virgin 1 show The Life & Times of Tim, you can choose from a range of concluding options to build your own custom sketch - and there’s a quality prize involved! Read the rest of this entry »

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Michael McIntyre is in Manchester this week… and he’s got a bit of football related material!

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Adapted for the stage by Ben Power and Tim Carroll, Spike Milligan’s Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is currently on a four week run at Hampstead Theatre before embarking on a UK tour.

Using all Spike Milligan’s own words, the show follows the progress of Spike’s war with a constant barrage of jokes, routines, and songs.

A man called Chamberlain who did Prime Minister impressions spoke on the wireless; he said, “As from eleven o’clock we are at war with Germany”. (I loved the “we”). “War?” said Mother. “It must be something we said,” said Father…

Spike Milligan’s celebrated war memoirs are brought to anarchic life in this world premiere co-produced by Bristol Old Vic and Greg Ripley-Duggan.

This epic Everyman’s odyssey through World War Two, with a cast of extraordinary characters, charts Gunner Milligan’s progress from joining the Royal Artillery through the North African and Italian campaigns. High comedy and tragedy collide, as we follow him and his ad hoc jazz quartet – complete with their famed comedy routines – adrift on the tide of great historic events.

Using Milligan’s own words, the story is told through a joyous fusion of comedy, jazz, song and dance – showing how humour, music and comradeship enabled a hapless and disparate bunch of young men to prevail against the might of the Nazi War Machine.

Further show information at www.spikeswar.com

LISTING AND TOUR INFORMATION

4 July to 18 July
Bristol Old Vic
Box Office: 0117 987 7877
www.bristololdvic.org.uk

23 July to 22 August
Hampstead Theatre
Box Office: 020 7722 9301
www.hampsteadtheatre.com

25 to 29 August
Oxford Playhouse
Box Office: 01865 305 305
www.oxfordplayhouse.com

1 to 5 September
Plymouth Theatre Royal
Box Office: 01752 267222
www.theatreroyal.com

7 to 12 September
Malvern Festival Theatre
Box Office: 01684 892 277
www.malvern-theatres.co.uk

14 to 19 September
Theatre Royal Lincoln
Box Office: 01522 525 555
www.theatreroyallincoln.com

6 to 10 October
Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
Box Office: 0131 248 4848
www.lyceum.org.uk

12 to 17 October
Congress Theatre Eastbourne
Box Office: 01323 412000
www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk

21 to 24 October
Chichester Festival Theatre
Box Office: 01243 781 312
www.cft.org.uk

2 to 7 November
Watford Palace Theatre
Box Office: 01923 225 671
www.watfordtheatre.co.uk

9 to 14 November
Liverpool Playhouse
Box Office: 0151 709 4776
www.everymanplayhouse.com

23 to 28 November
Nottingham Theatre Royal
Box Office: 0115 989 5555
www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.uk

More dates to be announced.

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Frankie will be trying out some brand new material in preparation for the new series of Mock the Week in three exclusive workshop performances next month at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

Here are the details.

Monday 6, Monday 13 & Monday 20 July
7.30pm
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith, London W6 9RL

You can find more information and book tickets at www.riversidestudios.co.uk

Tickets have just gone on sale and will be snapped up quickly. Book now to avoid disappointment!

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“Quirky Britain”- loving UKTV channel Blighty hosts award-winning television comedian Dom Joly on an epic road trip around Britain in an attempt to fill his house from top to bottom with British-made products in the brand new series Made In Britain, which runs every evening this week at 8pm.

As part of this unique experiment, Dom will have his family home turned upside down and stripped of everything he owns that’s not made in the UK. He’s then challenged to go on a remarkable shopping trip, travelling the length and breadth of the country to try and replace all his foreign goods with British-made products.

Take a look at this:

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Continuing the brand’s rebellious tradition, Kickers have partnered with Modern Toss writers Mick Bunnage and Jon Link, to create Random Bandits; a suite of cartoons, all in the pair’s crude and utterly hilarious style.

Modern Toss have developed 3 strands of film themes which appear as short skits in each of the episodes that make up the Kickers presents Random Bandits series.  The films feature voiceovers from Mackenzie Crook.

The first four films in the series had you laughing out loud, but all good things must come to an end so they’ve saved some of the funniest moments for this final, 5th episode (for the time being at least).

Head to www.myspace.com/kickersuk now to watch Random Bandits 5 and catch up on the rest of the Random Bandits series.

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The closest we’ll ever get to a Fawlty Towers reunion…

John Cleese, Connie Booth, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs.

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I think you’ll love this.  And Merry Christmas!

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Classic Christmas comedy the way it used to be…

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