Limmy to play Edinburgh Fringe
20/04/2016 … LIMMY is to perform at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
2016 Archives
Wed 20 April 2016
Tracy Morgan pulls gig over gay rights
Comic boycotts Mississippi over new law
20/04/2016 … Tracy Morgan has pulled a gig in Mississippi in protest against the state legalising discrimination against gay people.
BBC adapts 'astoundingly filthy' Fleabag for TV
With Olivia Colman and Hugh Dennis
20/04/2016 … Olivia Colman and Hugh Dennis are to star in a sexually explicit feminist comedy-drama for BBC Three.
Tue 19 April 2016
Hans Teeuwen: President Erdogan was a ‘boywhore'
Dutch comic wades in on free speech row
19/04/2016 … Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen has claimed Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan used to be a 'boywhore' in Istanbul brothel.
© BBC / Alan Peebles Two Doors Down gets a second series
BBC Two will return to Latimer Crescent
19/04/2016 … BBC Two has commissioned a second series of its comedy series Two Doors Down, midway through the first run.
RTE orders 'post-Celtic Tiger cubs' comedy
Shooting starts on Can't Cope Won't Cope
19/04/2016 … Filming has started on a new Irish comedy series about two young women getting to grips with life in the big city.
Everybody loved Doris Roberts...
Tributes as sitcom star dies at 90
19/04/2016 … Everybody Loves Raymond star Doris Roberts has died at the age of 90.