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11/12/2013 … Two lost Peter Sellers films are to be screened for the first time in more than 50 years – after being unearthed in a skip.
11/12/2013 … Football-loving comics Mark Watson and Henning Wehn are to front a new travel show in the build-up to next year’s World Cup.
10/12/2013 … Chris O’Dowd’s comedy series Moone Boy is to be turned into a series of children’s novels.
Miley Cyrus joke wins Christmas contest
10/12/2013 … Comedian Richard Woolford has won a £5,000 competition to modernise the traditional Christmas cracker joke, with a pun about Miley Cyrus.
10/12/2013 … THE SECOND instalment of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s The Trip, this time set in Italy, is to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month.
Shooting starts on BBC Three's Siblings
10/12/2013 … Fresh Meat actress Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Stourton from the Totally Tom sketch group are to star a new sitcom about an ‘obnoxious and lazy’ brother and sister.
Radio 2 listeners make the choice
10/12/2013 … Steve Bugeja has been crowned winner of this year’s BBC Radio New Comedy Award.
Robert Wachs also managed Eddie Murphy
09/12/2013 … Robert Wachs, one of the founding fathers of the New York comedy scene, has died at the aged of 73.
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