5 Oct
07:31
Halifax food trucks say Trixstar owes them over $60,000
Three trucks, one boycott call, and a $60,000 figure Michelle Kerfoot Bernava tracked nearly $29,000 of sales across four days of stand-up at the bottom…
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4 Oct
19:25
The Stand’s managing director leaves on 7 October, and nobody has been named to replace him
Six words in The Stand’s leaving statement for Mike Jones will matter more to the acts than everything else in it. The company says that…
4 Oct
19:24
Reece Dinsdale fronts campaign to save Square Chapel
Equity and Save Square Chapel campaigners marched along Halifax’s main streets and through the Piece Hall. They finished with a rally outside the abandoned building.…
4 Oct
05:55
Melbourne Comedy Festival’s venue deadline is Monday 5 October
“Our participant creative teams, performers and producers are the largest risk-takers and investors in the Comedy Festival,” Susan Provan said in July, in the Melbourne…
1 Oct
07:23
Southport Comedy Festival’s 17-show bill names two women. Manchester’s 53-show festival takes open applications for £55
Jason Byrne’s opening night at Southport Comedy Festival is sold out. So are both Jason Manford shows, Henning Wehn, Gary Delaney, Scott Bennett and Paul…
1 Oct
07:22
Susan Riddell’s terrorism charge dropped after a 7pm curfew
The last time Susan Riddell played the Edinburgh Fringe, she did it from her living room in Glasgow, on a 10.40pm slot in Monkey Barrel…
29 Sep
01:57
Build a comedy competition set that survives the five-minute rule
The line on the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year listing is not phrased as a suggestion. “All contestants must stick to 5…
29 Sep
01:55
Twenty-two names in the smaller type: how comedy festivals pay support acts
Twenty-two names in the smaller type: how comedy festivals pay support acts On Saturday 3 October, Ed Gamble headlines a warehouse complex in Peckham. Three…
28 Sep
10:34
The BBC Re-Edited a Katherine Ryan Joke Out of iPlayer Nearly a Year Later
“I don’t know that we are allowed to broadcast the C-word, but you did reference Victoria Beckham earlier and we’ll allow that.” Katherine Ryan said…
28 Sep
10:33
Leicester Comedy Festival liquidation: nil assets, £184,510 owed, and two rival February 2027 programmes
Nil in the assets column The statement of affairs filed at Companies House puts the assets of Big Difference Company at nil. The charity organised…
