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Today's best comedy on demand
Here's Chortle's daily round-up of new comedy to watch at home during lockdown.
This list, updated at around 3pm daily, covers subscription services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, iPlayer and NextUp, to podcasts and live streaming, is your essential guide to getting a daily dose of laughs.
You can search our listings for a more comprehensive list of online events using the blue box at the left or top of this page. Or if you're a promoter wanting to add an event, details are here.
Tuesday September 1
PODCAST OF UNNECESSARY DETAIL: Festival of the Spoken Nerd today launch their first podcast. In each episode, stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, experiments maestro Steve Mould and geek comedy songstress Helen Arney look for quirky facts and clear explanations of the world with the good humour they bring to their stage shows. Three episodes have dropped today, entitled Fuel, Interstellar and Rings, and three more are coming over the next three weeks. Listen and subscribe here. In the first episode Arney sings this song:
HOW DO YOU COPE? …WITH ELIS AND JOHN: Messrs James and Robins return for a second series of the BBC podcast in which they talk to celebrity guests about some of the greatest challenges they’ve faced – both mental and physical. Up first is George Ezra, who talks about his obsessive-compulsive disorder, while other upcoming guests include comedian Josie Long, naturalist and TV presenter Chris Packham and cricketer Monty Panesar. Listen here
BETWEEN US: Mervyn Stutter is a stalwart of the Fringe, unflaggingly presenting a daily showcase of talent and interviewing them for the past 28 years. Without the festival this year, he's instead turned to the internet to present a series of chats with Edinburgh regulars, including comedian Alexis Dubus, magician Ben Hart, cabaret star Dillie Keane and comedy reviewer Kate Copstick. Watch on his YouTube channel.
Monday August 31
ENVIRONMENTALS: This zero-budget comedy short about two wannabe environmentalists who attempt to give up meat in order to save the planet has already been selected for a few indie festivals and was last night released online. Needless to say it doesn’t go well for the would-be Greta Thunbergs. Writer Ben Behrens, who stars alongside comedian and Broadchurch actor Becky Brunning said: 'We’re all trying to be greener in our lives – but there’s something about screwing up when trying to do the right thing that’s an irresistible subject for comedy.' Watch it below:
THE GONG SHOW: The Comedy Store's brutal open mic night goes online, with new comics trying to survive three minutes through their webcams. Adam Rowe hosts the show, which kicks off at 9pm on Facebook. QUARANTINE BOPS: Canadian musical comedian Anesti Danelis has been releasing a weekly comedy song, and accompanying video, on Youtube even week since the beginning of lockdown, and has now released the collection as an album on Spotify and elsewhere. Tracks include No More Toilet Paper, Millennial on TikTok and Ingest Disinfectant. Or watch all the videos on YouTube.
Sunday August 30
YOUR PLACE COMEDY: Comedian and Chaser Paul Sinha, News Quiz and Mock The Week regular Angela Barnes, and enthusiastic upper-class eccentric Tim FitzHigham perform at this free gig tonight to support a group of ten small, independent venues across the north of England. Donations will help keep them afloat during the pandemic. More details here.
IT'S THE FIREWORKS TALKING: Daniel Kitson has put an audio recording his enchanting 2007 show about 'the courage of kindness' online via Bandcamp. It was recorded at The Stand during that year's Edinburgh Fringe and half the proceeds will be going to the venue - and its sister sites in Glasgow and Newcastle – after it revealed that it was close to collapse because of the financial hammer-blow inflicted by Covid.
FRED MACAULAY IN CONVERSATION: In the last of theses online talk shows, presented by by the Gilded Balloon, Macaulay is joined by fellow comics Jo Brand and Justin Moorhouse. The show is at 5pm, and tickets, priced from £2, are available here.
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Published: 1 Sep 2020
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