© Open Media/CC BY-SA 3.0 Groundbreaking Beyond The Fringe satirist was 85
27/11/2019 … Jonathan Miller, who shot to fame as part of the groundbreaking Beyond The Fringe, has died this morning, aged 85.
‘I just don’t feel funny like that'
27/11/2019 … Tim Minchin has revealed that he turned down a lucrative TV deal to make a sitcom based on his own life.
Comedy writer's publishing first
27/11/2019 … Comedian and writer Andy Hamilton is to create publishing history by releasing a book entirely in longhand.
The agent who advised John Bishop NOT to go into comedy full-time
27/11/2019 … Making the leap to becoming a full-time comic is a huge step for anyone.
But he ignores them to joke about his sullied reputation
27/11/2019 … Louis CK faced a handful of protesters at his shows in Israel this weekend, where he made light of the sexual misconduct that engulfed him.
Grime artist Big Zuu to make them meals
26/11/2019 … Comics including Rosie Jones and Desiree Burch are to take part in a new reality cooking show on Dave.
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Soho Theatre, London
26/11/2019 … It’s easy to wax lyrical about the bathetic poetry of the mundane that hallmarks John Kearns’s work.
26/11/2019 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
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