Soho’s new home for cabaret is so slick it’s like countercultural cosplay | Brian Logan

The opening shows at London’s Underbelly Boulevard – Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett and Batsu! – are less edgy than you might expect, and more pricey, but there are some impressive turnsIt was one of the birthplaces of alternative comedy. Then it was a …

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Soho’s new home for cabaret is so slick it’s like countercultural cosplay | Brian Logan

The opening shows at London’s Underbelly Boulevard – Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett and Batsu! – are less edgy than you might expect, and more pricey, but there are some impressive turnsIt was one of the birthplaces of alternative comedy. Then it was a …

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Employee of the Month (July 2022): Janelle James

Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month …

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Lil Rel to host American Version of ‘Small Fortune’ for NBC

It’s a great spring for Lil Rel Howery. Howery, who co-stars in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah as well as new Netflix hit movie Bad Trip with Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish, plus a new national Aflac TV commercial with Rob Riggle…

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Bake Off Extra’s Tom Allen: ‘I wanted to be an actor – but it turned out I was just gay’

As he publishes a moving memoir, the comedian and Bake Off contestant tormentor talks about homophobic heckles, still living with his parents – and why he’s never been in loveIn a deserted office overlooking the Thames, Tom Allen is admiring the view. …

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Jay Leno to host reboot of game show ‘You Bet Your Life’

FOX Television Stations has announced the return of You Bet Your Life, set to debut in Fall 2021. The half-hour comedy game show will be hosted by Jay Leno and broadcast on the FOX owned-and-operated stations, as well as syndicated nationally. Tom Wern…

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Let the BBC’s new boss do his worst – with comedy, I’d rather be offended than bored | Suzanne Moore

New director-general Tim Davie will reportedly steer TV comedy to the right to correct years of perceived anti-Tory bias. But it was Brexit, not the BBC, that put a spanner in British humourJust as I couldn’t work myself up over what anyone sings at th…

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Let the BBC’s new boss do his worst – with comedy, I’d rather be offended than bored | Suzanne Moore

New director-general Tim Davie will reportedly steer TV comedy to the right to correct years of perceived anti-Tory bias. But it was Brexit, not the BBC, that put a spanner in British humourJust as I couldn’t work myself up over what anyone sings at th…

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Comedy game show Funny You Should Ask extends syndication run

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has announced an additional two seasons for its comedy game show Funny You Should Ask, extending its syndication run through the 2022-23 season. Hosted by Jon Kelley, the daily half-hour strip features a panel …

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The Chase’s Paul Sinha: ‘I’m going for laughs in bleak places’

The gameshow star and former GP on how he wrote his ‘career best’ standup material after getting married – and being diagnosed with Parkinson’s‘You don’t expect the most eventful year of your life to be in your late 40s,” says Paul Sinha. “No one expec…

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