© Carla Spreight Rivalries put aside
Liverpool's Hot Water club donates £5k to Manchester's Frog & Bucket
16/10/2020 … Hot Water Comedy Club has donated £5,000 to help a former rival to survive the coronavirus crisis.
2020 Archives
Fri 16 October 2020
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Eurydice Dixon's killer could die behind bars
Jaymes Todd loses his final appeal
16/10/2020 … The man who raped and murdered comedian Eurydice Dixon as she walked home from a gig in Melbourne has lost his last appeal.
© Nick Fewings/Unsplash My neighbour paints the social distancing markings...
16/10/2020 … Tweets of the week New Covid19 restrictions: Medium low high tier: You can throw a satsuma at a cow.
Nish Kumar on the town hall meetings
16/10/2020 … Nish Kumar has been quick to comment on Donald Trump and Joe Biden's TV interviews last night.
Taskmaster wins 1.7million viewers for Channel 4
Series especially popular with 16-34 year-olds
16/10/2020 … The first Taskmaster episode on Channel 4 attracted 1.
Mo Gilligan: Black, British and Funny
16/10/2020 … There have, understandably, been a few TV retrospectives of late hailing Britain’s black comedy heroes.
© BBC An award to light up her life
How Victoria Wood couldn't keep track of all her accolades
16/10/2020 … Victoria Wood won a lot of accolades in her esteemed career: from Bafta, the British Comedy Awards, the Royal Television Society – even Chortle.
When Sean Hughes won the Perrier
Rare footage unearthed on the third anniversary of his death
16/10/2020 … Rare footage of Sean Hughes performing in Edinburgh on the year he won the Perrier has been unearthed on the third anniversary of his death.