Gareth Richards died in a car crash in April of this year. Now he has been honoured at the Edinburgh Comedy Fringe Festival in Scotland, UK, becoming the first ever recipient of the Victoria Wood award.
The BBC reports that Richards, who had been appearing at the Fringe Festival since 2010, was due to perform again this year before he was killed in April. Instead, his friends Dan Ward and Mark Simmons staged “A Show for Gareth Richards” in his name, recruiting some of the country’s biggest comedy names to perform.
The show raised almost £20,000 which will go to a trust fund for Richards’ two sons.
Ward told the BBC: “It feels really sensational to have won this award for Gareth.
“Victoria Wood was the queen of musical comedy, and Gareth was our legend.
“Gareth’s name will be forever associated with this award, and that just means everything.”
The...
The BBC reports that Richards, who had been appearing at the Fringe Festival since 2010, was due to perform again this year before he was killed in April. Instead, his friends Dan Ward and Mark Simmons staged “A Show for Gareth Richards” in his name, recruiting some of the country’s biggest comedy names to perform.
The show raised almost £20,000 which will go to a trust fund for Richards’ two sons.
Ward told the BBC: “It feels really sensational to have won this award for Gareth.
“Victoria Wood was the queen of musical comedy, and Gareth was our legend.
“Gareth’s name will be forever associated with this award, and that just means everything.”
The...
- 8/27/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco, Jan 11 (Ians) Desktop virtualisation company Citrix Systems has started widespread layoffs, with thousands of employees being handed over pink slips, the media reported.
Cloud Software Group (Csg), the parent company of cloud vendor Citrix and enterprise applications vendor Tibco, began layoffs in a ‘brutal’ way, starting Tuesday, Crn reported citing sources.
“It’s a terrible day, with a lot of good Citrix employees with families and kids leaving the company. This is brutal,” the source was quoted as saying in the report.
The layoffs hit Citrix’s commercial sales organisation as well as some channel-facing employees.
Several laid off employees took to LinkedIn to share their woes.
“Like so many others at Citrix, I was caught up in today’s massive restructuring. I have been associated with Citrix for the past 22 years, either as a full time sales engineer or contract master instructor. I wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything,...
Cloud Software Group (Csg), the parent company of cloud vendor Citrix and enterprise applications vendor Tibco, began layoffs in a ‘brutal’ way, starting Tuesday, Crn reported citing sources.
“It’s a terrible day, with a lot of good Citrix employees with families and kids leaving the company. This is brutal,” the source was quoted as saying in the report.
The layoffs hit Citrix’s commercial sales organisation as well as some channel-facing employees.
Several laid off employees took to LinkedIn to share their woes.
“Like so many others at Citrix, I was caught up in today’s massive restructuring. I have been associated with Citrix for the past 22 years, either as a full time sales engineer or contract master instructor. I wouldn’t trade those experiences for anything,...
- 1/11/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
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