A tight 5: June 9

Sarah Millican fans have raised £111,648 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The money was donated after the comic urged those attending the 142 dates on her Home Bird tour to drop their spare change into collection buckets at the end of the shows. She said: 'Thank you to all of my lovely audiences who donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. It is a very worthwhile charity that is close to my heart.

AGNES BROWN is to be the subject of her own exhibition in Dublin. Mrs Brown D'Exhibition, which opens at the Little Museum of Dublin next week, charts how Brendan O'Carroll developed the foul-mouthed matriarch, and runs until July 20.

JASON COOK, the stand-up behind BBC Two sitcom Hebburn, is to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of Sunderland. He will pick up the honour at the city’s Stadium of Light on July 7. Cook previously dropped out of his media production course at the uni after one term when his comedy career started taking off.

FILMING has begun on BBC Four’s new sitcom Detectorists, written by Mackenzie Crook, who also stars as an amateur archaeological treasure-hunter. Toby Jones plays his best friend and the cast also includes Rachel Stirling, Aimee Ffion-Edwards and Lucy Benjamin. Crook, who is making his directorial debut with the series, said: 'For years British television has been screaming out for an archaeology based sit-com… hasn’t it?' The comedy is due to air later this year.

MIKE MYERS is to be honoured with his own set of postage stamps in his native Canada, appearing on three 85-cent stamps as Austin Powers, Doctor Evil and Wayne Campbell from Wayne's World. The stamps will be among a range depicting Canadian comics.

Published: 9 Jun 2014