You might have seen this on the TV recently - the superb old Lego advert featuring the all time great Tommy Cooper providing a great voiceover…
They truly don’t make them like that anymore - comics or adverts -but we’re totally chuffed to see this back on the box. Exactly why Lego have opted to [...]
Smarmy posh-paws Michael McIntyre hasn’t always been a successful standup comedian - once upon a time he was heavily in debt.
So it was with a smile that I saw he had cancelled a gig - and lost out on £28K - when he discovered that the 350-strong audience were all debt collectors from Kent-based Cabot [...]
“Obviously I’m thrilled – although now my mum will find out I’m a stand-up comedian. She thinks I drive a minicab.”
Not before time, a black comic has got a show on the BBC - and he’s not Lenny Henry!
Stephen K Amos has been a regular on various panel shows (particularly Have I Got News For [...]
In a role he was surely born to play, the great Brian Blessed is a modern day Henry VIII in this series of video shorts from BBC Comedy.
Set in the present day, Henry is alive and well and living in a suburban semi with his long-suffering wife, Catherine Parr. Shot from the perspective of his [...]
Lee’s manic energy, uncanny observations, hilarious delivery and side-splitting material have made his live performances a must-see for comedy fans. His tours and DVD releases year-on-year continue to smash sales and box office records. Last year’s 59 date arena tour ‘Big’ saw Lee sell out his first show at London’s 02 Arena in just one hour, making it the UK’s biggest solo live comedy gig ever. This broke Lee’s own previous record from 2005 at the MEN arena where he played to over 10,000 people.
Get ready for a weekend of Peter Kay as the funnyman comedian, actor and writer makes an assault on the airwaves to let you know that he is back - and planning a new tour.
On TV and radio several times this weekend, Kay is notably appearing on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on Friday 27 [...]
Great news that Outnumbered has garnerd 5 nominations in the 2009 British Comedy Awards, deserved receiving an entry into the Best Sitcom category as well as putting forward Claire Skinner as best Actress and all of the fantastic younger cast as Best Newcomers (despite the show approaching its third series).
The great thing about the children [...]
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 [...]
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!
“Man City and Man United sound like gay bars!”
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