A tight 5: November 25

BILL BAILEY has been lending his support to pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong. The comic, who is touring in the city, posted pictures from the Occupy HK camp on Twitter:

in Mong Kok with the friendly protests #OccupyHK pic.twitter.com/CoHkyNGik6

— Bill Bailey (@BillBailey) November 20, 2014

GARY LE STRANGE has released his first new composition in almost a decade. On the single Norman (I've Dropped My Cup of Tea) Waen Sheperd's New Romantic alter-ego makes increasingly desperate pleas to the listener to help him rescue his beverage from oblivion. It can be heard on Spotify and to buy at the usual digital stores, including CD Baby. Shepherd last year put out some previously unreleased old songs on an EP called Glamoronica.

MILES JUPP'S Radio 4 series In And Out Of The Kitchen is to return for a fourth series – but writing on his website the comic, currently starring in Neville's Island in the West End, said: 'It is unlikely to be recorded before the middle of 2015.' He added that the TV version recorded back in April 'will probably be on next year. No official word though. Just a big, helpful silence.'

DAVID MITCHELL, Jack Whitehall, Johnny Vegas, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Reginald D. Hunter, Aisling Bea, David Baddiel and Alex Horne & the Horne Section are among the comedians taking part in the new series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which starts with a Christmas special on Channel 4.

PROSECUTORS have decided to drop a theft case against US comedian Andy Dick after he allegedly he took a necklace worth $1,000 from a man on Hollywood Boulevard earlier this month, Tmz.com reports.

Published: 25 Nov 2014