Alan Carr's looking for geniuses
New Channel 4 show with Susie Dent
14/02/2025 … Alan Carr is to front a new Channel 4 reality show seeking to uncover ‘the country’s most gifted and unsung minds’.
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Samantha Day wins Leicester's Silver Stand-Up contest
13/02/2025 … Samantha Day has been crowned winner of the Silver Stand-Up competition at Leicester Comedy Festival.
© Channel 4 / Big Talk Mitchell and Webb are back
New sketch show with a host of new comedy talent
13/02/2025 … David Mitchell and Robert Webb are returning to Channel 4 with a new sketch show.
Village People vs Jim Jefferies
Band sues comic over the 'defamatory' suggestion that YMCA might be a bit gay
13/02/2025 … The Village People are threatening to sue Jim Jefferies for daring to suggest that YMCA might be a celebration of gay sex The Australian comedian was served with…
Don't Make Me Laugh by Julia Raeside
Jay Richardson reviews the new novel about predators on the comedy circuit
13/02/2025 … Not a week goes by without revelations of showbusiness toxic male behaviour.
© House of Commons/Roger Harris/CC BY-SA 3.0 Matt Forde to interview Kemi Badenoch and Michael Gove
For his live Political Party podcast show
13/02/2025 … Matt Forde is to interview Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and former Cabinet minister Michael Gove on stage for his Political Party podcast.
Clown in a gown
The very fancy souvenir Chris McCausland took from Strictly
13/02/2025 … Chris McCausland has admitted he kept an embroidered dressing gown from Strictly Come Dancing – but is too embarrassed to wear it.
How Do You Cope? returns
...but Elis James doesn't as John Robins now hosts it alone
13/02/2025 … John Robins is making a new series of his podcast How Do You Cope? – but this time without Elis James.