Who are this year's Slapstick comedians?
28/11/2017 … Ade Edmondson, Lee Mack, Christopher Biggins and Jo Brand are among the stars set to appear at Bristol’s Slapstick comedy festival in January.
2017 Archives
Tue 28 November 2017
© BBC/Baby Cow A-has from the past!
Unseen Alan Partridge footage in new BBC documentary
28/11/2017 … The BBC is to mark the return of Alan Partridge with a documentary about the character’s rise featuring archive footage never previously broadcast.
Comedians animate the inanimate
Doodlebugs launches as part of BBC One's Christmas line-up
28/11/2017 … Comics including Kayvan Novak, Morgana Robinson, Spencer Jones and the Cardinal Burns duo are to give voices to everday objects in a new animated sketch show.
Mon 27 November 2017
Trailer for Craig Ferguson's new stand-up special
Tickle Fight on Netflix on December 5
27/11/2017 … Netflix has released a trailer for Craig Ferguson's new stand-up special.
Charlie Brooker cancels 2017 Wipe
Satirist too busy on other shows
27/11/2017 … Charlie Brooker will not be making a 2017 Wipe, he has announced.
Chinese Burn
27/11/2017 … This week’s BBC Three comedy pilot sets out its stall from the second it starts.
BBC makes a Brexit sitcom
...about that tricky Irish border issue
27/11/2017 … The BBC is making a Brexit sitcom about the controversy surrounding the Irish border.
Scottish Comedian Of The Year 2017 final
27/11/2017 … The Scottish Comedian Of The Year final has been held in some large and distinguished spaces, from the Barrowlands Ballroom to Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket, but…