Vic Reeves to host Brianiac

Weekly Comedy Round-Up



...amongst other tidbits

Nooo! Hammond!

Simon Pegg started making people laugh at his nan’s Salvation Army club for the over-70s. ‘It was invariably some racially dubious gag I’d heard Jim Davidson tell,’ he says, ‘but I’ve reinvented myself since then.’


huh?

Yeah, he was extremely racist in those days.

He was in the SA Youth.

Oh yeah I gets it now

Two New Pilot Shows, one starring Dylan Moran & the other starring Mark Heap

Spaceballs, The Animated Series

David Walliams Host Bond Docu

New Sci-Fi Comedy, with Kevin Eldon, Ben Moor and Richard Herring

Eeee! Dylan + Maxine Peake = GENIUS. Sounds fab.

The horror.

I was about to gripe about the BBC throwing good money after bad where sci-fi comedy's concerned but that actually sounds brilliant. Very Neverwhere-ish.

It'll be terrible. Ben Moor is a terrible writer. And mates with that Emma Kennedy (at least I think that's her name). She's annoying, and he's annoying by association.

Emma Kennedy's fantastic, as is Richard Herring.

Sad State of Modern American Comedy

Some Up & Coming Funny People

Matt Lucas to guest on Kath And Kim

Made me giggle

It says that Daniel Kitson is "Simply the most technically gifted stand-up comedian of his generation."

This is true.

But is he funny? That makes him sound like some sort of gag-spitting automaton.

I think you'll find that's Tim Vine.

And yes, Kitson am funny, he am the funniest.

Lee & Herring Reunited... for one night Charity gig.

Veeeeeeery tempting.

Unhappy Brand Fans

Right Wing Daily Show

Right wing comedians? Such a thing exists?

And no, Jim Davidson doesn't count. Or Rowan Atkinson.

That was so obviously going to happen. A secret gig being advertised on the front page of myspace, and unticketed?

Just plain stupidity.

"...A-Lister Sadie Frost..."

I haven't laughed this early in the morning for ages.

I'm joining you in a chortle. I'm trying to think what she's actually done in the last few years, apart from being dumped by Jude Law, and doing a crap C4 show. Something that Brand will soon have in common with her, in fact.

When you follow an arsehole, don't be surprised if it shits on you now and then.

Honestly, this man is Gina Yashere unfunny. Why doesn't he get sued for calling himself a comedian?

Have you even seen him live?


As for those who didn't get into the party - they were told in advance that demand would be high and to get there early. What do they expect him to do, break the law and go double capacity?

It was nice enough that he came outside with free DVD's (RRP: £19.99) for each of them and took the time to sign them and pose for photos, because most people wouldn't have done that.

Usual mad stalker fans (off the internet) feeling hard done by when the object of their obsession doesn't recognise just how good and mad and obsessive they are.

He is crap, though.

Have you seen him live?

Judging from the comments on his myspace page I think the fans have some genuine complaints about how this event was organised.

I would say that many of the people who turned up and queued believing they would get in were far from obsessive fans, and he's certainly not one of their favourite people now!

I think many people believed this was an attempt to give something back to the fans who've helped him become so successful rather than a cynical attempt to plug his DVD and perform to his celebrity pals.

They should have just given a ticket to the first 150 people in the queue, rather than letting everyone who queued stay outside for several hours. A couple of free DVDs to the people who pushed to the front only adds insult to injury.

It was a stupid idea, badly organised and I think his management deserves to be criticised. Alienating your fans is just plain stupid.

Good points.

Also, people should surely be aware that celebrity myspace pages have nothing to do with the celebrities themselves. Russell Brand doesn't log on and post up all his tour dates using the html codes for bold and blue. Russell Brand doesn't upload videos of his own DVD to youtube then link them into the 'about me' section of his profile. Russell Brand doesn't leave those bulletins plugging his shows etc and there's a very specific reason he doesn't reply to those messages people send him.

Since one or two celebs ended up with popular myspace pages, management teams have begun setting them up for their clients. I have a friend who interviewed Panic At The Disco and asked them what they thought of myspace and how efficiently it had worked in their favour as a promotional tool - and none of them even knew what myspace was - yet much of their promotion is conducted via 'their' myspace page.

So those angry at Brand because they feel the event was misrepresented shouldn't really be directing their anger at Brand himself.

But if they do that surely there's less chance of him getting a well deserved fucking good kicking.

I agree that the fault lies with Russell's management. A far better way of organising the event would have been to give tickets away in advance to people on his friends list. I was getting the bulletins about the event and they suggested a much larger venue.



I was getting a couple of reminders about this every day, and I think 'first come, first served' was mentioned once.

Russell still has to take some of the blame for not being savvy enough to question the organisation of this 'secret' gig (that was advertised on the front page of one of the world's largest websites).

He probably doesn't even use myspace. I know I'm getting bloody sick of it and know a lot of people who refuse to sign up.

Why?

What does this have to do with anything?

But, yes, since you ask.

Overrated.

Very.

Just like Ricky Gervais.

It's just that the general trend is for those who haven't seen him live to poo-poo him on the basis of his admittedly rubbish TV work. But live I thought he was very good.

It also seems to be a bit of a fad to not like Russell Brand now because he's too popular, whereas if he was still underground everybody would rave about him like they did before he became popular.

Jim Davidson Heckled By Boy Scout

^I'm sure it was what most of the crowd were thinking.

Nice one.

Wake Up With Stephen Fry

I want one!

Me too. I wouldn't mind that it kept calling me sir.

Noel Fielding Hosts Teenage Cancer Trust...

Tickets available for The Peter Serafinowicz Show

I always knew Peter Kay was a cunt, and I was right.

Daniel Kitson says so too, so it must be true.

Aye, but Peter Kay says Daniel Kitson is a bastard.

And that he has a beard. Like the Yorkshire Ripper.

I used to be such a fan of Kay but if ever someone was ruined by ego, it's him.

I just look at pieces of work such as Kitson's 'A Made Up Story', 'Tales For The Wobbly Hearted' and 'C-90', and then look at Kay peddling the same routine over three dvds,and I know who to trust.

Heh, Kitson made a comment at a benefit gig: "I make a very comfortable living at this, but me mum's not getting a fucking bungalow".

Kitson's the best stand-up on the circuit today.

That's all anyone needs to know.