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Latest · 6 Nov 2026 · 13:10
Ten pages. That’s the entire barrier to entry on the Royal Court’s Stage Write Comedy Special. Sit with that for a second, because the other…
River Leanox · 7 min read
“I’m gutted to have to tell you this but my show has been cancelled.” Karen Dunbar said that in an Instagram video this week. Then…
Morgan Rees was compering a show in Buckinghamshire that, as he put it in his December 2024 Substack post, was “being held in an active…
Nobody knows how many comedians there are in the world, because no statistics agency counts them. O*NET lists Comedian only as a sample job title…
“Their standing balance for our appearance was due at the end of September. It remained unpaid.” That is AY, quoted by Premium Times. The reports…
Sinbad still cannot walk six years after his October 2020 stroke and, as of April 2026, primarily gets around in a wheelchair. He is performing…
Brenna Oude-Reimerink paid $394 for two VIP tickets to a comedy festival that didn’t happen. A month after it was postponed, she told CTV News…
Radio 4 put out more than 30 comedy commissions, and five weeks later the BBC announced that comedy commissioning for radio is being folded into…
“Just DON’T MAKE IT ANY LONGER!” is, I think, a first for me: a competition rule in all caps, from the person judging it. That’s…
SNL UK is broadcast from studio TC1 at Television Centre, London, according to Wikipedia’s article on the show. It is a BBC Studioworks stage opposite…
