Lizzie Roper joins Grumpy Old Women
17/10/2017 … Comedian Lizzie Roper has joined the Grumpy Old Women team as they announce a new tour.
Tue 17 October 2017
Jack Whitehall: At Large
Trailer for new Netflix special
17/10/2017 … Netflix has released the trailer for Jack Whitehall's new stand-up special At Large.
Comedy agent turns novelist
Hannah Begbie inspired by raising a son with cystic fibros
17/10/2017 … Former comedy agent Hannah Begbie has become a novelist, and has sold her first book to HarperFiction.
Trailer Park Boys star John Dunsworth dies
17/10/2017 … Trailer Park Boys star John Dunsworth has died at the age of 71 following a 'brief and unexpected illness’.
Mon 16 October 2017
© BBC/Colin Hutton The Upstart Crow flies again
16/10/2017 … The BBC has ordered a third series of Ben Elton’s Shakespeare comedy Upstart Crow.
Is Dom Joly ditching his giant phone?
New episodes of Trigger Happy released today
16/10/2017 … Is Dom Joly finally ditching the giant phone that became his trademark? In a new series of Trigger Happy, the comedian is seen hurling his outsized device into…
How Sean Hughes envisaged his own funeral
16/10/2017 … Sean Hughes – whose death at the age of 51 has been confirmed today – once wrote a poem about how he would like to be laid to rest.
Stew anyone?
When Sean Hughes went on Come Dine With Me
16/10/2017 … As the comedy world mourns Sean Hughes, let's remember the time when he appeared in a celebrity version of Come Dine With Me – and served the…