Always Be Comedy

A big old Friday Episode as we discuss our win at the Chortle Awards (huge thanks to everyone who voted!), the exciting build up to SNL UK, starting this weekend! Plus lots more on Last One Laughing, Sam Campbell, Small Prophets and so much more @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP155 - Dane Buckley Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST!  Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more.  Go see Dane at the fringe here! - https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/dane-buckley-darling To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Kenneth Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-lwA61hkPk Opener - Micky Flanagan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6M-V4n8Pb7Q Middle - Ellen Degeneres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxrTlsqwoPU Closer - French and Saunders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDUvIuVXTA About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Its the annual Oscars special, we're going through the big categories, we're getting into the Timothee Chalamet ballet / opera controversy and so much more! @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Davis is back on the pod! Brilliant standup and star of Paddington 2, Murder in Successville, Wonka and a huge amount more answering brand new questions! Tom Davis is on tour now! - https://bigtomdavis.com/ @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another Friday Episode! James and Tim discuss the newly announced writers on SNL UK, chat TLC's new panel show and the commissioning of second series for various new comedy shows! Plus all sorts of tangents and so on as per @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP153 - Sunil Patel It's another Rebooked episode and it's one of our all time faves, Sunil Patel is back and rebooked! @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another Friday Episode where we cover the return of Last One Laughing UK, the return of Scrubs, Catherine Tate being cast in Oh, Mary! and heap praise on Michelle De Swarte plus all the tangents and more! Please vote for Always Be Comedy in the Chortle Awards in the link below https://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2026/02/19/59972/the_chortle_award_2026_nominees_are... For Best comedy venue... please vote "Always Be Comedy at the Tommyfield" For Best pro comedy night... please vote "Always Be Comedy" @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Please vote for Always Be Comedy in the Chortle Awards in the link below https://www.chortle.co.uk/features/2026/02/19/59972/the_chortle_award_2026_nominees_are... For Best comedy venue... please vote "Always Be Comedy at the Tommyfield" For Best pro comedy night... please vote "Always Be Comedy" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP152 - Josh Pugh Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST!  Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more.  Go see Josh on tour here! - https://joshpughcomic.com/ To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Barbara Nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyUWd3_fXZI Opener - Rory Scovel https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aSumvKOFL8Y Middle - Eleanor Tiernan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qirBdZ8T-aU / Chris Kent https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B0Qjd_BXna0 Closer - Harry Hill https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AssQmO94qqo About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another Friday episode! We discuss the return of Red Dwarf, the return of Star Search, we heap praise on Amelia Dimoldenberg with the announcement of her new film plus all the usual tangents of course @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP151 - Stewart Lee Rebooked We welcome back the master Stewart Lee with brand new questions! Stewart Lee Vs The Man-Wulf is on tour right now - https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/live-dates/ @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another The Friday Episode filled with chat and tangents. This week we're talking sitcoms being remade in other countries, which ones work, which ones work less? There's also chat on Alan Carr's new travel show, Small Prophets and we pay tribute to the hugely influential Philippe Gaulier. @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP150 - Mike Wozniak It's our 150th guest episode and it's one of our all time faves, Mike Wozniak is back and rebooked! Mike is on tour right now with The Bench - https://mrmikewozniak.com/ @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another Friday Episode and it's a news heavy one with the news breaking about Always Be Comedy's new Balham venue and SNL UK's cast within the space of about ten minutes, there's much to discuss! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP149 - Rachel Parris Rebooked! Rachel Parris is back on the pod for Rebooked! We have a whole host of new questions for her and she is predictably brilliant. Order Rachel's novel 'Introducing Mrs Collins' here! - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/introducing-mrs-collins-a-pride-and-prejudice-sequel-telling-the-story-of-what-charlotte-lucas-did-next-rachel-parris/fbad3ec113f56eca?ean=9781399751612&next=t Austentatious are at the Vaudeville Theatre in London most Mondays here! - https://showandtellpresents.com/events/austentatious-west-end-2024 And on tour here! - https://showandtellpresents.com/events/austentatious-tour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Its another Friday episode filled with tangents, discussing the BAFTA nominations for The Ballad of Wallis Island, James Acaster's latest special being shown on the big screen, new tours and so much more! @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the very first episode of Rebooked where we bring back our favourite guests for a brand new set of questions! Who better to kick off with than Jacob Hawley? Jacob is about to release a new special and announce a new tour, make sure you're following him on Instagram so you don't miss anything! @alwaysbecomedy theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a new episode of the Friday Episode! We're talking Smelt, a new exciting opportunity in scripted comedy, Is This Thing On?, Netflix is a Joke Festival, the return of Joe Lycett and much more! theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Always Be Comedy - EP147 - Robin Morgan Multi-award-winning comedy nights Always Be Comedy is finally exploiting those sweet, sweet contacts… WITH A GIG-THEMED PODCAST!  Guests curate their ideal comedy gig: who would they have open? Close? What dream moment from their gigging days would they love re-enact at this gig? And what live comedy nightmare from their past must not happen again under any circumstances? There’s this and so much more.  Go see Robin on tour here! - https://www.robinjmorgan.co.uk/ Check out his special here! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N11UNj6QZ4A To get in touch with the pod, email theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com --------------------------- SPOILERS! MC - Carl Donnelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3rOShvph1A Opener - Rob Rouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxFD2L5zQSk Middle - Nina Gilligan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9lBwkDqfc Closer - Ninia Benjamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MRygUorrr8 About us:Host James Gill launched Always Be Comedy in 2011; since then the cream of the comedy world have called ABC their second home. James is a comedian and former journalist, with more than two decades of experience interviewing some of the biggest film, TV and sports stars on the planet… this has got a bit self-aggrandising but we want you to know it’s not ABC’s first rodeo.ABC’s Tim Lewis has worked at the biggest and best comedy and entertainment shows in Britain and is invariably tech-ing half the shows at the Edinburgh Festival each year (these aren’t his words, so please don’t accuse him of bragging).Always Be Comedy won Best Pro Comedy Night at the 2023 and 2025 Chortle awards, having previously won Best Comedy Show at the Joe.co.uk Awards. If you’re hungry for more ABC-related knowledge, please visit www.alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James and Tim discuss the Golden Globes, the return of Mock the Week, SNL UK and a whole lot more! theteam@alwaysbecomedy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices