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14 comedy shows up for BBC Audio Awards 2017
The shortlists for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017 has been revealed, with 14 comedies in the running across the Best Scripted Comedy and Best Comedy with a Live Audience categories.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2016BBC Three publishes new Top Ten series
BBC Three has launched a new online web series in which comedians list their 'Top Tens' on a subject of their choosing. Additionally, it is inviting fans to submit their own lists.
British Comedy Guide, 14th July 2016Interview: Ben Ashenden, The Pin
A chat with Ben Ashenden/
Hannah Whitcombe, Fresh Fringe, 25th August 2015Comedians on their stage clothes
Comics at the Edinburgh fringe reveal their sartorial secrets, from furry trousers to see-through numbers.
The Guardian, 17th August 2015The Pin answers 10 Edinburgh Fringe Questions
The Pin - aka Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen - are back for their third Fringe this year, sketch show Ten Seconds with The Pin. Find out what the boys have to say for themselves...
British Comedy Guide, 3rd August 2015Blag a comedy expert part 42: The Pin
In 'blag a comedy expert' part 42 we welcome comedy double act The Pin, who are also known to their friends (and even some strangers), as Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen.
Bad Scents Of Humour, 24th July 2015Last in the run of a sitcom that's a kind of apologetic British remake of Two And A Half Men, though it feels more like something from the 1990s on ITV. Up to now it's been a vicious circle of familiar characters and consequently underpowered gags. Tonight, the chalk/cheese twentysomething brothers who are surrogate parents to a troubled younger sibling are surprised by the arrival of their unreliable father. Feckless lothario Toby (Johnny Flynn) is innocently delighted; Tolstoy-reading fusspot Dan (Ben Ashenden) is embittered.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 21st July 2015Filming starts on new Comedy Central sitcom Brotherhood
Series production has commenced on Brotherhood, Comedy Central UK's first studio audience sitcom. Johnny Flynn and Ben Ashenden star.
British Comedy Guide, 21st October 2014Edinburgh Fringe preview: The Pin
Sometimes a sketch combo is simply not very funny from first sketch to last sketch. Not The Pin though. Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen are unashamedly smart cookies who have refined the process with forensic precision and have a consistently high hit level.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th July 2014The Pin, Soho Theatre - comedy review
The sketch duo of Alex Owen and Ben Ashenden have lost none of the heady inventiveness that initially got them noticed.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 20th March 2014