© Idil Sukan BBC Two picks up Nish Kumar-fronted satire
From the makers of The Daily Mash
24/03/2017 … BBC Two has picked up a spoof news show fronted by Nish Kumar.
Fri 24 March 2017
© Idil Sukan 
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Oxfam gala
By Lorelei Mathias at the Regent Theatre
24/03/2017 … The gala ushering in the 28th annual Melbourne Comedy Festival is as stuffed with comedy royalty as it is eager fans.
'At least I wasn't put in a Porta Potty by Macho Man Randy Savage'
24/03/2017 … • 'I was called Worzel at school because I had lots of blonde hair.
Thu 23 March 2017
London won't be getting the big purple cow this year
23/03/2017 … The giant purple cow will not be seen on London’s South Bank this summer.
Released at last: The Real McCoy
23/03/2017 … Pioneering sketch show The Real McCoy has been made available to buy for the first time in 23 years.
Brass Eye: The unseen footage
New documentary about the seminal comedy
23/03/2017 … The original director of Brass Eye has made a documentary about the controversial and groundbreaking series.
Radio 4 commissions Austentatious
Improv comedy to mark novelist's bicentenary
23/03/2017 … Hit improv troupe Austentatious, who create spontaneous stories in the style of Jane Austen, have landed their own Radio 4 show.