The comedian who can’t talk
The 2014 BBC New Comedy Award winner is to perform at this summer's Barnard Castle Comedy Festival.
The 2014 BBC New Comedy Award winner is to perform at this summer’s Barnard Castle Comedy Festival.
A great impression
If you can’t do impressions, you clearly had toys as a child. North East comedians Alfie Joey and Cal Halbert, on the other hand, were more than happy sat in a room on their own.
Al Murray on education
Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education, Education.
Tony Law signs up for Barnard Castle Comedy Festival 2015
Teesdale comedy fans will get to see the Canadian stand-up’s brand new show first when he performs at The Witham in Barnard Castle on Saturday 18 July.
New Act Of The Month: Sammy Dobson
“As I approached the stage for my five minutes one of the audience showed me the knife in his coat and whispered ‘you’d better be fucking funny’. My arse has never sweated like it before or since.”
Jason Cook fronts new comedy talent search
The creator of BBC Two sitcom Hebburn will help judge a new competition for budding comedy writers.
TV review: Inside No. 9, series two, 12 Days Of Christine
People used to use fridge magnets to curate collections of rhetorical nonsense. Now they use Pinterest, but the nature of the sunset-backed, self-enabling idiom remains the same. Life is about the journey, they say, not the destination. In the case of portmanteaux comedy series Inside No.9 however, they might have a point. From the pens of […]
Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre to celebrate 30 years of Viz
For the first time in 20 years, Viz creators Chris and Simon Donald will appear on stage together answering fan questions.
