If there is one comedian that keeps rising from the stepping stones of the comedy circuit, it’s James Acaster. 2016 was a great year for James – a sold out stand up tour, wrote a sitcom for the BBC about Jury Duty and got his fifth nomination at […]
A year ago, the show called Josh Widdecombe that was a regular on XFM retired when the change happened to the radio station and it changed to Radio X. The show was full of some fantastic comedy moments and had various comedians as guests each and every week […]
So last week, I was talking about how ComComedy had opened up my eyes to a new acts in the industry, however, whilst it introduced me to new acts my interest in stand up was sort of developing when i was University. At University, I didn’t go to […]
I like the North but I do find the term festival is used quite lazily up here. A few months ago I went to a food festival near Sunderland that sold itself on being the biggest food festival in the North East and when I turned up it […]
Each week we will not only be providing you with some of the genres of show available at the Fringe we are also going to do a ‘Comedian Focus’ section which will take an in depth look at a certain comedian playing at the Fringe. This week we […]
If there is one thing that is a great source of storytelling it is the podcast. I got into the world of podcasts a little bit later then some people but when I did get into them I ended up spending so many commutes to work listening to […]
YES you read that correctly! Today marks our first ever birthday – how exciting is that?! We have lasted a whole year and fell like we are going from strength to strength! To celebrate a year passing I am going to give you a run down of our […]
If you have been reading this blog since the beginning, you will remember that every monday we used to write a feature called Podcast of the Week and on July 20th of last year, we wrote and highlighted the entertainment of a podcast by comedian James Acaster that […]
This week was another great week of improv which lead to my whole persona as an improviser change. I didn’t realise it at first it was only when i walked away from the class that i realised where my strongest areas of improv are starting to show. This […]
James Acaster, Mock the Week regular panelist, award winning comedian, king of being cabbaged (refer to blog post about Josh Widdicombe’s ex – XFM podcast here) is known for his wit and his unique style of humour but before all of this happened, his childhood did and he […]
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