It has long-since been a major gripe here at Quintessential Comedy that younger comics and amateur talent rarely gets any coverage in local papers. Were I to point the finger of blame at anyone, it…
Nice to see Kris Marshall is recovering from his recent accident – following the sad loss of Humphrey Lyttleton last week I was a little reluctant to wish him well in case this very blog…
With my spur-of-the-moment Les Dawson day, I thought what better time than to introduce a new category – Legendary Moments in Comedy! You may know this story – if not, it has been around for…
You won’t feel that you have any choice once you’ve sat through this – BBC News have announced that Mong and Bint’s James Corden and Mathew Horne have signed up to make a new comedy…
[singlepic=5,240,320,,right]…and so it continues, with a feature in The Guardian about Marcus Brigstocke’s comedy ski fest in the French Alpine town of Meribel. Tragically, Brigstocke had spent £25,000 of his own money on the event…
[singlepic=5,320,240,,right]If it wasn’t sickening enough to see that Marcus Brigstocke hosts an annual comedy festival at a ski resort, the old corporate gig seems to be raising its profile, with a recent business course from…
The age of the comedy spinoff is most certainly with us, with companion guides and kerching cashins a-plenty in Borders and Waterstones last Christmas. Most notable of these was Al Murray’s The Pub Landlord’s Book…