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BBC News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
South West's largest comedy festival returns this weekend
The South West's largest comedy festival has returned for its second year -promising to be twice as big as the first. The Exeter Comedy Festival, which features more than 60 shows in 15 venues across four days, is taking place this week until Sunday 8 June. Pubs, hairdressers and piano shops are among businesses across the city which were converting into temporary venues. Bridget Christie, Tim Key, Reginald D. Hunter and David O'Doherty are among some of the big names appearing. "We can't wait for people to see all the great shows we have to offer," festival organiser Georgia Thomas said. Audiences will find both established TV comedians and strong local acts on the line-up. Taskmaster's Bridget Christie and Mark Watson are among those to come, while Tim Key launched his new poetry book L.A. Baby! in an interview with cult-favourite Daniel Kitson on Thursday. Cornish Comedian of the Year Ben Treloar and Exeter's own Ed Tripp will also be appearing. In 2022, JoJo Maberly performed her first ever stand-up gig in Exeter. Three years later, after scooping up an armful of awards, she's back with her full length show Angst & Angstability. "When I started there was one gig a week so I would go every week and write new material," she said."Now there are so many shows coming to the festival - it's so great to see the comedy world come alive in Exeter." The weekly gig, Locally Sourced, is still going and its organisers are the brains behind the festival. "In the days of social media, gathering people together is an almost revolutionary act," organiser and Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Will Adamsdale said. "And yet when we do it, we love it and feed off it."An exhibition of art produced by comedians performing at the festival is open to the public at the Exeter Picturehouse.
Irish Post
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Post
Bridget Christie's ‘looking forward to' life on the road again as new tour announced
COMEDIAN Bridget Christie claims she is looking forward to life on the road again as she announced a new stand-up tour. The second-generation Irish woman, who was born in Gloucester to parents from counties Roscommon and Leitrim, will be back on stages across the country when her Jacket Potato Pizza show kicks off in 2026. Bridget Christie has announced a new show (Pic: Natasha Pszenicki) The new live show will take her across the UK from January to March, and Christie is pretty excited about it. 'I am very much looking forward to eating motorway services food again and picking my favourite roundabouts,' she said this week. 'Last year Plymouth won.' The news follows the second successful series of Christie's sitcom The Change airing on Channel 4. Christie wrote, executive produced and stars in the show, which centres on fifty-something heroine Lisa – who, after being diagnosed with the menopause, finds herself indulging in a mid-life crisis which sees her drop her home life for an adventure in the wilderness of the Forest of Dean. The Bafta-nominated comedy saw Christie win the Debut Writer award at the New Voice Awards 2024 in recognition of the first series' success and Best Actor at The Edinburgh TV Awards. Jacket Potato Pizza is Bridget's fourteenth live show. For tour listings click here. See More: Bridget Christie, Jacket Potato Pizza, The Change, Tour
The Guardian
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
A golden example of trickle-down economics
Your report on the revival of gold mining in north Wales (Going for gold: coin marks hope of bringing Welsh mine back from the dead, 26 March)( made me recall a summer I spent camping in the area in the 1970s, when, in the village pub, I enjoyed the stories of locals who had worked in the mine. One theme was how the proceeds of illicitly siphoned gold had funded new houses in the locality. If true, this is perhaps one of the few examples of trickle-down economics in Kelly Little Raveley, Cambridgeshire Your interview with Bridget Christie highlights the feminist perspective of her work (Bridget Christie on brain fog, flirting, and why she won't be taking a lover: 'My heart is full. I am open to it, but I'm not looking for it', 29 March). It includes a reference to four other comedians – Daniel Kitson, James Acaster, Nish Kumar and Josie Long. In the online version, the first three all have links to other Guardian articles about them. Irony? Siân WilliamsFerndown, Dorset So the film-maker Uberto Pasolini thinks there were no gyms in ancient Greece ('At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What's left now?' Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey, 28 March)? Someone should point out to him where the word 'gymnasium' comes BrewisBurnopfield, County Durham Given the name of Greenland's capital, I'm worrying that Donald Trump might accidentally trigger world war three if he says he's going to Nuuk at some point (Report, 28 March). Norman MillerBrighton, East Sussex Spotting this year's April fool may be harder in case it turns out to be a Trump BailyWest Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
