Lucont lands the Laughter Award and more Mayall and Edmondson: last 72 hours in comedy
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The weekend's news, as we enter the last week of the Fringe...
Marcel Lucont has won the Amused Moose Laughter Award. SSP
Mayall and Edmondson are attempting a return to television with a TV version on 1997 stage show Hooligan’s Island. British Comedy Guide
Comedians have been doing some interviewing of each other for Channel 4’s Funny Fortnight. This would all be a bit Blah were they not so amazing: there’s Gregg Davies, Vic Reeves and Dame Sharon of Horgan among them. The Velvet Onion
Isy Suttie, John Bishop, Midnight Beast and a triple-headliner threat of Josh Widdicombe, Charlie Baker and Holly Walsh are all on at the Birmingham Comedy Festival.
The chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Baroness Elizabeth Smith, has quit. Chortle
Tanya Gold wrote a piece about rape jokes that starts off a bit Guardian before making some very good points. Guardian
Science in comedy is hot, according to an article in the Independent that has presumably been sat on a shelf for four years. Independent
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