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The Skinny on. Thanyia Moore
South London actor and comic Thanyia Moore is making an impact with her straight-talking stand-up. With last year s Edinburgh Fringe cancelled, we’re hoping Moore makes a splash on the (presumably virtual) festival circuit this year Feature by The Skinny | 14 Jan 2021
Thanyia Moore s breaking through to the mainstream. Having started on the comedy circuit in 2012, she s gone on to win the Funny Women Awards (previously won by the likes of Katherine Ryan, Desiree Burch and London Hughes), reached the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedy Award in 2018 and recently supported Dane Baptiste on tour. Over the past year, she s made appearances on Comedy Central at the Edinburgh Fringe and recently debuted on
Former BBC New Comedy Award-winner
BBC New Comedy Award winner Stephen Buchanan is to record his first stand-up show for Radio 4.
In Talking Shop, the comic talks about his chequered work history and his attempts to help Dove, a Vietnamese refugee who lives with himself and his mum, on to the career ladder.
Buchanan took the BBC title in 2018, after three times making the final of the Scottish Comedian Of The Year competition. He has appeared on Jonathan Ross’s Comedy Club and The Now Show and written on the likes of Scot Squad and Breaking The News.
His show will be filmed in front of a virtual audience next week, and joins a roster of forthcoming Radio 4 stand-up specials that includes shows from Imran Yusuf, Jayde Adams, Elvis McGonagall and Gemma Arrowsmith. Kiri Pritchard-McLean’s show, Egg-sistential crisis aired last night.
YOUR Place Comedy is back for another Stay Home season of remote double bills in Lockdown 3, kicking off on January 24 with Josie Long and Ahir Shah. “While it wasn’t deliberately timed, another lockdown has brought another round of Your Place Comedy – or, if you’re a conspiracy theorist, another round of Your Place Comedy has ushered in another lockdown,” says virtual comedy club organiser Chris Jones, Selby Town Council’s arts officer. “We’re back, broadcasting from comedians’ living rooms, kitchens and attics or, as was the case with Lucy Beaumont, her homemade pub.” Streamed gigs are booked in for January 24, February 28 and March 28. “Line-ups for instalments two and three are yet to be confirmed, but I’m thrilled to say that we’ve got the utterly brilliant and terrifyingly intelligent Josie Long and Ahir Shah signed up for the first show,” says Chris
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