The Week in Comedy: Rhod Gilbert, Danny Dyer & Lee Nelson
Ask Rhod Gilbert has been axed by the BBC.
Run For Your Life, the comedy starring Danny Dyer, took just £602 in its opening weekend.
“Houses are funny,” according to Alun Cochrane. Radio 4 have ordered a series of his show, Alun Cochrane’s Fun House.
North East comedian Steve Drayton has started a new, biweekly column for Giggle Beats.
Ross Noble is making another travel series – this time using Twitter as his sat nav. UKTV’s Dave have ordered Ross Noble’s Freewheeling, a six-part series where the eccentric Newcastle comic uses the micro-blogging site to decide what to see on his travels.
Sarah Millican has spoken about her first ever stand-up gig, describing it as “like a court where the jury have decided you’re guilty.” Millican spent her formative years doing short sets at The Dog and Parrot in Newcastle before eventually relocating to Manchester.
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are being reunited in a new comedy for the BBC. Reeves and Mortimer last worked together on the C4 pilot Lucky Sexy Winners after their panel show Shooting Stars was controversially axed by the BBC in 2011.
Radio 4 have commissioned a pilot of Peacock & Gamble’s 2011 Edinburgh Fringe show, Emergency Broadcast. The boys told Giggle Beats: “It will be a load of fun and we will try and do our very best but we have just got some new PS3 games so it may be a rush job at the end of April.”
Speaking of which, Giggle Beats readers can take advantage of a two for one offer on tickets for Peacock and Gamble’s show at the Durham Gala Theatre. Just quote ‘GiggleBeats’ online, over the phone or in person.
Silent comic Lee Ridley is dressing up as a lass – blusher and all – for Comic Relief. He’ll become Lost Voice Girl for a week in March.
According to an opinion poll conducted by Babybel, 98 per cent of people think men are better at telling jokes than women.
Last but not least, comedy maestro Simon Brodkin is blacking up for a new character in Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People. Rolls eyes.
That’s all for this week, folks. Check back every Sunday morning for another brief round-up of the week’s comedy chatter – or get your daily dose on Twitter: @GiggleBeats.
