Latest Breaking News On - Chortle comedy book festival - Page 2 : comparemela.com
They feel like comedy’s Dead Sea Scrolls
Eighty of Victoria Wood’s previously unseen scripts are to be released this autumn.
News of the new book, released with the blessing of her estate, comes five years to the day after the comedian died at the age of 62.
The scripts were discovered by writer Jasper Rees while he was researching her biography, Let’s Do It, which was released last year.
He first spoke of unearthing the treasure trove of material when he appeared at the Chortle Comedy Book Festival in November, saying: ‘When she wrote Wood and Walters [her breakthrough TV show], she wrote exactly the number of sketches which were needed, and she was very unhappy because a lot of it wasn’t very good.
Jasper-rees
Geoff-posner
Victoria-wood
Jamie-coleman
Julie-walters
Tupperware-party
Chortle-comedy-book-festival
What-jasper
Daily-telegraph
Dead-sea
Video-box
The week s best comedy on demand
The week s best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the find live comedy search box with online as the region.
Now
ALFIE BROWN - IMAGINATION: The comic’s latest ‘philosophical and obscene’ special, filmed in Glasgow’s Oran Mor just days before the first lockdown hit last March, has been released on YouTube for free. Described as ’truly subversive and almost torridly honest,’ the show explores individuality, sexuality and ‘trying to feel at home in the away end’.
Tonight
JOHN-LUKE ROBERTS: STDAD-UP: The comedian has just discovered a tape of this rightly acclaimed 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show - and will be streaming it live on YouTube tonight. It s his take on the dead dad show that had become the stuff of festival cliché by this point, a bizarre physical tribute to a man he didn t much like. Tickets are available from Go Faster Stripe, priced a fiver. Here is our review from the time.
Nottingham
United-kingdom
Edinburgh
City-of
Sindhu-vee
Tom-binns
Toby-williams
Paul-chowdhry
Larry-dean
Alexander-owen
Marcel-lucont
Matt-forde
Matt Berry s alter-ego is back after six years – and on a new channel
The BBC has confirmed that it has picked up a new series of Toast Of London – six years after it last aired on Channel 4.
As co-creator Arthur Mathews originally revealed at the Chortle Comedy Book Festival in November, the new series will revolve around Matt Berry’s actor attempting to make it in Hollywood.
The six-part series is provisionally titled Toast of Tinseltown and will air on BBC One.
Berry said: ‘I couldn t be more thrilled to not only be working with Arthur and the rest of the Toast family again, but to also be taking the show to the BBC which I know Toast himself would very much approve.’
Hollywood
California
United-states
United-kingdom
London
City-of
British
Ben-farrell
Shane-allen
Matt-berry
Paul-lee
Kate-phillips
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.