New Act of the Month: Stephen Frizzle
Stephen ‘Friz’ Frizzle is a 26-year-old comedian from Lincolnshire who performs musical comedy in Newcastle. He is our September New Act of the Month.
Interview: Fiona Gillies talks about City Slacker
Image: Fiona Gillies and Tom Conti, © City Slacker Ltd / Richard Pavitt City Slacker, an indie British comedy film, makes its television debut today on Sky Movies. The film stars Fiona Gillies as Amanda, a business woman who is desperate to have a baby with minimal inconvenience, known to comedy fans as Becky in […]
Interview: Steve Nallon #1 – “A celebration of Les”
Steve Nallon, best known for impersonating Margaret Thatcher in Spitting Image, is touring in the comic play Cissie & Ada: A Hysterical Rectomy, based on the northern housewives played by Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough in the 1970s and 80s. Nallon appears as Ada/Roy alongside Eric Potts, who plays Cissie/Les. Steven Arnold, best known as […]
Jesterval 2013: Gordon Southern talks comedy, QI, John Lloyd and more
Gordon Southern has two shows at Jesterval 2013. The first is a straight stand-up affair called The Kerfuffle about some of the amazing things that have happened to Southern in the last two years. He ambitiously describes the other, A Brief History of History, as “QI meets Horrible Histories.” Southern has actually worked on QI […]
David Hadingham talks Jesterval 2013
Radio Teesdale’s Peter Dixon catches up with organiser and comedian David Hadingham to talk about the past, present and future of Jesterval.
Interview: Adele Silva
Adele Silva appears in 51 Shades of Maggie, a parody of EL James’ infamous sadomasochistic novel, which begins its UK tour in September at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal.
Rob Gilroy: Making A Stand – with Alpha Papa writer Neil Gibbons #2
Welcome, dear reader, to part two of my cosy chat with one of the writers of TV’s Alan Partridge. All good things have a part two – The Godfather, half an apple and someone with a split personality.
Rob Gilroy: Making A Stand – with Alpha Papa writer Neil Gibbons
For this week’s column, I thought I’d change tact. I have decided to do an interview, but not just any old interview; a good interview.
