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© Matt Crockett The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
03/08/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Tuesday August 5 ROOM 101: Paul Merton returns to ask celebrities to banish the things…
03/08/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC Stand-up appears on Desert Island Discs
03/08/2025 … Harry Hill says he was inspired to leave medicine to become a comedian by the death of his stepfather Tony.
© Rob Parfitt / Channel 4 Channel 4 series airs next month
01/08/2025 … Channel 4 has released the first sketch from Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping.
Comic taken ill 'at 70mph on the motorway'
31/07/2025 … Jason Manford has revealed the reason he had to cancel shows this weekend was because he’s undergone emergency appendix surgery.
First memoirs... at the age of 85
31/07/2025 … Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance.
Competition finalists announced
31/07/2025 … The five acts in the running for this year’s Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award have been announced.
Including one from comedy duo The Electrric Head
31/07/2025 … Production company Big Finish Originals are to release six new full-cast audio sitcom pilots from up-and-coming writers.
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