Nearly 50 years of comedy panel analysis
Have you ever wondered how often your favourite comedy panel shows have female guests? Brave soul (and data scientist) Stuart Lowe has checked nearly 5,000 episodes of UK panel shows to find the male-female host/guest ratio. That’s 4,700 individual TV and radio broadcasts spanning 49 years. And it took around four years to put all […]
Dawn French gets speccy with Sue Perkins
For one night only, on Sunday 22nd November, broadcaster and comedian Sue Perkins will be discussing her hilarious autobiography Spectacles with fellow writer and comedian Dawn French at the Royal Festival Hall. The two halves of separate comedy double acts will talk about memoirs and Sue says she will: “answer questions such as: Is Mary […]
Spectacles by Sue Perkins
According to her memoir Spectacles, Sue Perkins has always wanted to write a book. Only the book she imagined was more of an epic than a memoir. Still, I for one am pleased the publishers went with the memoir rather than the adventures of Ra’anui and the Enchanted Otter. Sue describes her mother’s early (and […]
