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GB News reveals line-up of comedians for its newspaper preview show
The executive producer of Headliners is comic and writer Andrew Doyle, the creator of spoof social justice warrior Titania McGrath who also hosts his own programme on GB News, Free Speech Nation. Headliners has three alternating hosts: Mark Dolan, Simon Evans and Dominic Frisby. And now confirmed as the rotating panel of comedians offering comments on the next day's headlines are: Steve N Allen, Rhona Cameron, Nick Dixon, Andrew Doyle, Josh Howie, Leo Kearse, Sajeela Kershi, Erich McElroy, Diane Spencer and Ian Stone.
Chortle, 21st January 2022The problem with Stewart Lee's hit list
Simon Evans asks: "For a comedian of such impeccably contrarian taste, why are his targets so utterly banal?"
Simon Evans, Spiked, 4th January 2022It's too late to save comedy from 'cancel culture'
Will comedy become the latest victim of 'cancel culture'? Dame Maureen Lipman fears as much.
Patrick West, The Spectator, 22nd December 2021Barry Humphries was joking, you fools
His brilliant appearance on This Morning seems to have sailed over the media's heads, says Simon Evans.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 28th November 2021Simon Evans: let Roy Chubby Brown perform
Free speech is for jowly, unlettered grotesques, too.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 4th September 2021Simon Evans on Sean Lock
He was the comedian's comedian who somehow became the nation's favourite comedian.
Simon Evans, Spiked, 20th August 2021Comedy Unleashed to record TV stand-up pilot
Comedy Unleashed, the club that dubs itself "the home of free-thinking comedy", is to film a TV stand-up show pilot. Simon Evans, Andrew Doyle, Dominic Frisby, Tania Edwards, Mary Bourke, JoJo Sutherland, Leo Kearse and Tony Law are amongst the comedians taking part.
British Comedy Guide, 16th August 2021Simon Evans interview
Simon Evans is one of the most established names at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. He's made numerous TV stand-up appearances, is a Radio 4 panel show favourite and creator of the comedy-economics series Simon Evans Goes To Market for the broadcaster.
Chortle, 13th August 2021Right on: does stand-up comedy have a left-wing bias?
The idea that the artform skews left is widespread, but the prevalence of comedians punching down suggests otherwise.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 25th January 2021Simon Evans: Funny and right? That'll be me then
Lampooning pomposity, whether it be from left or right, is the only real job of a comic on the BBC.
Simon Evans, The Observer, 13th September 2020