© BBC/So Television/Christopher Baines Comics make Hay
04/04/2017 … Sandi Toksvig, Graham Norton and Eddie Izzard are to appear at the Hay Festival from next month.
Tue 04 April 2017
© BBC/So Television/Christopher Baines 
President Trump gets his own Comedy Central show
Courtesy of impersonator Anthony Atamanuik
04/04/2017 … Donald Trump has landed his own Comedy Central show… in the guise of an impressionist.
© Nick Aleck/ Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic/CC BY-SA 2.0 Friends rejection 'left me burning with hatred'
04/04/2017 … Simpsons star Hank Azaria has revealed he was left 'burning with jealousy' after losing out a role in Friends.
Phill Jupitus leads Greater Manchester Fringe highlights
04/04/2017 … The Greater Manchester Fringe has unveiled its 2017 programme.
Quiz answers: April 4
04/04/2017 … 1) Tim Brooke Taylor (above in the film) 2) Canary (a yellow one) 3 The Cow Shed 4 An arm 5 Cosmo 6 Gerald Wiley 7 'Ello My Darlings 8 Maths 9 Samantha 10 Jennifer…
Stephen Fry's The Hippopotamus to open comedy film fest
...And Every Brilliant Thing to close it
04/04/2017 … The film version of Stephen Fry’s comic novel The Hippopotamus is to open the sixth LOCO London Comedy Film Festival next month, it has been announced.
Bob Franklin: An Hour's Too Long For Stand-Up
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne Comedy Festival
04/04/2017 … Bob Franklin is a comedian who’s saying what we are all thinking, in the title at least.
The night I performed to rich racists
Mat Ricardo on a gig that turned sour
04/04/2017 … A while ago – and enough time has passed that I can mention this without the people involved knowing that I'm talking about them – I did a gig.