I'm the editor of the website beyondthejoke.co.uk and I've launched a Substack where I'll be publishing pieces about comedy - exclusive comedy think pieces and recommendations, classic comedy memories. It's my life in comedy, from the gaffes to the gags.
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Comedy News Round Up
“I didn’t see that happening,” said someone on my Facebook page when I announced that Rowan Atkinson is returning to the stage. And neither did I. But the 71-year-old is doing classic sketches and characters in a run in London in 2027. Find...
Comedy News Round Up
Who says TV is rubbish? On Thursday night I had to choose between Celebrity Traitors and Taskmaster. There’s a fair bit of overlap too, with a number of Traitors also having Taskmaster on their CV. As I write I’m waiting to find out if Jame...
Is There Life After Email?
There’s no other way to say this. Life has been a bit fricking weird since September 19. You know the way people say they are going to take a social media break or a doomscrolling holiday? Well, on Saturday September 19 at about 4pm I recei...
Comedy News Round Up
It looks set to be the biggest show of the autumn. Bigger than Strictly. Bigger than Last One Laughing’s Halloween Special. The final countdown to the new Celebrity Traitors has begun. The new series begins on Thursday 1 October at 8pm on B...
Comedy News Round Up
Do you listen to the radio these days? If not maybe you should. There’s lots of new comedy coming up. Richard Curtis has written his first new sitcom since Vicar of Dibley for BBC Radio 4. It’s called Greatest Living Writer. No pressure the...
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Comedy fan for as long as I can remember. Evening Standard comedy critic for many years. Founder of the beyondthejoke.co.uk website for other bits about comedy. Author of Beyond A Joke about the dark side of stand-up.
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