© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Bill Bailey's close encounter with a jaguar
...and why he shaved off hs ‘skullet'
18/10/2024 … Bill Bailey has told how he nearly came a cropper thanks to a language barrier.
2024 Archives
Fri 18 October 2024
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Quebec comedy festival becomes a Just For Laughs
As new parent company ComediHa! rebrands as Just For Entertainment
18/10/2024 … Quebec’s comedy festival is to be renamed Just For Laughs after its organisers snapped up the brand name.
© BBC Filming starts on the final series of Man Like Mobeen
Guz Khan returns for a fifth run
18/10/2024 … Filming has begun on the fifth and final series of Gus Khan’s Man Like Mobeen.
Thu 17 October 2024
Cat Cohen: Blame It On The Moon
From her new special Come For Me
17/10/2024 … Here’s Cat Cohen singing Blame It On The Moon, from her new special Come For Me.
La Clique announces its 2024 line-up
Returning to London's Leicester Square
17/10/2024 … The line-up has been announced for the 20th anniversary season of the La Clique cabaret and burlesque show, which returns to London this Christmas.
Shrinking gets a third series
AppleTV+ renews Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein and Bill Bill Lawrence comedy
17/10/2024 … Apple TV+ has ordered a third series of Shrinking, the therapy-based comedy co-created by Brett Goldstein.
US Have I Got News For You host to present the BBC original.
Roy Wood Jr takes the chair in presidential election week
17/10/2024 … The host of the American version of Have I Got News For You is to host the BBC original.
Derek joins the club
17/10/2024 … At last! A new podcast in which two upper-middle-class journalists talk about the news! Alistair Green's alter-ego Derek came up with the idea while listening…