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, [...]
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
Frankie Boyle Preview Gigs
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 [...]
Dom Joly stars in Made In Britain
[singlepic=75,320,240,,left]“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 [...]
New Position for Comedy
Husband and wife chat show act Richard Madely and Judy Finnegan are welcoming a wealth of comedy talent to their studios this week on their Sky Watch (Channel 109) show Richard and Judy’s New Position.
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Today (Wednesday 17th December) sees the couple expecting and appearance from cheeky standup comedian Frank Skinner whose recent return [...]
Shooting Stars Christmas 2008
It’s been confirmed that Shooting Stars - the Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer-hosted celebrity gameshow is returning for a Christmas special and clip show special in the seasonal period.
Six years have passed since the shows last outing, with Vic and Bob’s own production company Pett taking charge of these new installments.
15 years after it first [...]
Hip Hop Grannies
The new Current TV (Sky 183, Virgin 155) season of Rebels features young at heart hip-hop grannies from China “breaking phat onez” and declaring war on those who believe hip-hop is just a youth movement. The hip hop septuagenarians are just a segment of the three one hour blocks to be broadcast Friday 21st, Saturday [...]
Old Jokes Unearthed
This in itself reads like something from a jokebook, perhaps a distant relative of the Not the Nine O’Clock News sketch based on the discussion of a film about the Pythons (spoofing discussion and controversy over The Life of Brian upon its release).
[singlepic=57,320,240,,left]Hierrcles and Philagrius are the ancient Greek duo (residing in the 4th century) [...]
Fawlty Reunion
You may have seen the brief reuniting of Andrew Sachs and John Cleese on Prince Charles’s 60th birthday celebrations thing last night on ITV1 - or even at the venue itself - in aid of the Princes’ Trust.
It was a slightly odd moment, but not without a feeling of nostalgia, and was completely at home [...]
Alan Partridge and Other Less Successful Characters
Steve Coogan’s first tour in a very long time sees the comic master bringing back Alan Partridge, Paul and Pauling Calf and other (less successful) characters, as the name of the tour suggests.
He’s glad to be back on stage it seems after years of television and movies, but what of the former TV Sports presenter [...]
Robin Williams at LSE
If there was ever a “secret” gig that I would want to go to outside of the world of music, it would be Robin Williams turning up at the London School of Economics at the weekend.
A lucky 100 LSE students witnessed the comedy legend perform a warm-up routine at The Chuckle Club that was extremely [...]
