27/01/2022

After stealing the show at the Royal Variety Performance not once but twice in recent years, Welsh comedian Rod Woodward returns to his home town to play at the New Theatre for the first time in his career on Saturday 26th February 2022. Despite numerous awards and TV credits to his name, Canton born Rod believes playing the grand old venue is “a serious itch he needs to scratch”. “I’ve been fortunate to play most of the other great Welsh…

09/06/2021

Howardian Primary in Cardiff have been revealed as one of the funniest schools in the country. Class 5HB has been shortlisted as one of the ten finalists in Beano’s hunt for Britain’s Funniest Class 2021. Their joke ‘What did the pen say to the rock? Nothing, because pens can’t talk’ was specially chosen by Beano’s panel of expert judges and is now being put to a public vote on Beano.com to decide the ultimate winner. The nationwide initiative, in partnership with Young Minds, the children and people’s…

17/03/2021

  According to a new survey commissioned by Comic Relief for Red Nose Day, more than eighty per cent of people from Cardiff rely on humour to help them get through lockdown. Red Nose Day returns on Friday 19th March and aims to unite the nation by spreading joy and humour to homes across the UK, whilst raising money to help people struggling. Humour has the power to get people through some of the toughest of times. 81 per cent…