BBC buys Awkwafina's US comedy series
Nora from Queens coming to iPlayer this year
19/08/2020 … BBC Three has brought the rights to US comedy series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens.
2020 Archives
Wed 19 August 2020
Radio 4 commissions tech series from comic Olga Koch
Russian infiltrates the BBC....
19/08/2020 … Radio 4 has signed up Russian-born comedian Olga Koch for her own four-part comedy series.
Joanne McNally on the price of feminism
From Comedy Central at the Edinburgh Fringe
19/08/2020 … Comedy Central has released a short stand-up set from Joanne McNally as part of its alternative Edinburgh Fringe series.
© ITV Joel Dommett signs up for Supermarket Sweep
Comic to go wild in the aisles
19/08/2020 … Joel Dommett has achieved the pinnacle of stand-up achievement.
'Edinburgh has not seen its like before'
We look back at The Wrestling, and other highlights from the 2011 Fringe
19/08/2020 … Our nostalgia trip to Fringes past pulls in to 2011 today, the year Adam Riches won the main Edinburgh Comedy Award and Humphrey Ker won best newcomer in a crowded…
The Guardian axes Clare In The Community
Cartoon strip that spawned a sitcom dropped after 25 years
19/08/2020 … The Guardian has axed its Clare In The Community cartoon, which also spawned a long-running Radio 4 comedy, after almost 25 years.
© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Ken Dodd helps build a new theatre
His charity chips in £700,000 to Playhouse North
19/08/2020 … Ken Dodd is helping to build a new theatre from beyond the grave.
Alice Levine to co-host The Museum of Curiosity
As Eddie Izzard, Ian Hislop and Hannah Gadsby appear as guests
19/08/2020 … Alice Levine is to take over as curator on Radio 4’s The Museum of Curiosity.