Now THAT's how to throw a sickie...
Russell Brand's audacious lie to get off work
22/01/2020 … Russell Brand is not known for doing things by halves – and even before he got into comedy he pulled the most audacious sickie of all time.
Wed 22 January 2020
© BBC Comedy Central orders a series from transgender comic Jordan Gray
Sketches set in a supermarket night shift
22/01/2020 … Transgender stand-up Jordan Gray has landed her own series of shorts of Comedy Central.
Touts offer Dave Chappelle tickets – for £417
Instant bid to cash in on intimate London gigs
22/01/2020 … Greedy touts are already asking more than £400 for tickets to see Dave Chappelle in London.
Mondeo
A bitter-sweet comedy short about running into an old friend
22/01/2020 … Ghosts actor Kiell Smith-Bynoe stars in this new comedy video about running into an old friend in the street.
The Royal Family becomes a laughing stock...
New animated comedy with Orlando Bloom and Tom Hollander
22/01/2020 … Orlando Bloom, Tom Hollander and Alan Cumming are to lend their voices to a new animated comedy series about the Royal Family.
© BBC Little Britain set for a TV comeback
Walliams and Lucas encouraged by reaction to radio Brexit special
22/01/2020 … More Little Britain is on the way – 12 years after the last TV series.
Comedy stars to judge literary award
Comedy Women in Print celebrates funny female writers
22/01/2020 … Comedy performers Joanna Scanlan, Lolly Adefope and Pauline McLynn have joined the judges for the UK’s only award celebrating witty female writers.
Tue 21 January 2020
End of the road for This Country
21/01/2020 … This Country is set to end after its upcoming third series, the BBC Three has announced.