Highlights from the Leicester Comedy Festival
13/02/2018 … Welcome to the punderdome! In what's taken off as a great marketing gimmick - with #ukpunday trending across Twitter yesterday – eight pun-dits gather…
© BBC John Cleese on his return to sitcom
13/02/2018 … John Cleese makes a return to sitcom this weekend with Hold The Sunset, his first BBC comedy since Fawlty Towers 44 years ago.
Over ‘sexual suggestions and phrases’
12/02/2018 … Egyptian authorities have censored the Arabic version of Saturday Night Live because of ‘sexual suggestions and phrases’.
Comic also speaks of Jerry Springer and more in new podcast
12/02/2018 … Stewart Lee has revealed that he was rejected for a Netflix special for being 'too parochial'.
12/02/2018 … Micky Flanagan's agent has revealed the secret of his success… moisturiser.
Both making their debuts at the festival
12/02/2018 … Harry Hill is to headline this year’s Latitude, the first time he’s played the festival.
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Rich Mix Studios, London
12/02/2018 … It’s apt that the nomadic NATY awards – homeless since their days of being linked to the Hackney Empire – wound up in East London’s…
'Knowing when to stop is highly overrated'
12/02/2018 … America’s Comedy Central in the US has ordered three more seasons of Daniel Tosh’s show Tosh.
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