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BBC axes Sue Perkins panel show
26/02/2020 … The BBC has dropped Sue Perkins’ panel show Insert Name Here.
2020 Archives
Wed 26 February 2020
© BBC/So Television/Christopher Baines Third novel for Graham Norton
'My most personal story to date'
26/02/2020 … Graham Norton his writing his third novel, about the consequences of a devastating fatal car crash in rural Ireland.
Mo Gilligan relaunches his YouTube channel
Just in time for his new tour...
26/02/2020 … He may have come to prominence when his ‘coupla cans’ catchphrase went viral – but comedian Mo Gilligan has largely spurned the world’s…
Matt Lucas to play Wayne Sleep
26/02/2020 … It might not be the most immediately obvious casting, but Matt Lucas has been cast as diminutive ballet star Wayne Sleep in a new US comedy-drama.
Meet This Country's new vicar – Stifler
Seann William Scott cast in US remake
26/02/2020 … The American remake of This Country has found its vicar: Stifler from the American Pie movies.
Tue 25 February 2020
Where's there a Wetherspoons called The Sir Norman Wisdom?
25/02/2020 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
The Larmer charmers
Festival announces its comedy line-up
25/02/2020 … The Larmer Tree Festival has announced its comedy line-up for 2020 Mark Steel and Suzi Ruffell will headline the event, which runs on the Wiltshire/Dorset border…
David Baddiel: Trolls Not The Dolls
Tour review by Steve Bennett at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking
25/02/2020 … Comedians reading out their internet abuse on stage is as old social media itself.