© BBC/Fremantle Productions Steve Bennett on last night's opening episode
09/07/2013 … Since the ratings success of old-fashioned sitcoms such as Mrs Brown’s Boys and Miranda, the BBC has looked backwards for inspiration as it searches for its next…
VIDEO: Contestant takes rejection badly...
08/07/2013 … Comedian Andrew Ryan has been attacked on stage by a gong show contestant who’d been booed off.
But Stewart Lee is trying to challenge it
08/07/2013 … British comedy has undergone an elitist 'stitch-up', with poorer performers being ‘priced out’ of success, Stewart Lee has claimed.
08/07/2013 … Through Spaced and Shaun Of The Dead, Simon Pegg made his name by playing the millennial slacker, an adult trapped in a teenager’s mindset.
08/07/2013 … Comedy magazine Mustard is to cease publishing after after six years.
To highlight child refugee crisis
08/07/2013 … Eddie Izzard has travelled to Iraq to report on the crisis facing Syrian refugees in the country.
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