A tight 5: February 18

CATASTROPHE star Rob Delaney has announced a short UK tour, playing seven nights in five cities in June and July. The last episode in the first series of the acclaimed comedy, which Delaney wrote with his co-star Sharon Horgan, airs next Monday, with a second series already commissioned. Click here for Delaney's tour dates.

MOONE BOY star Deirdre O'Kane says she's going back to stand-up after a hiatus to concentrate on her acting career. The 45-year-old says she will perform at Kilkenny's Cat Laughs festival this summer, telling the Mirror: 'I am back writing stand-up – I'm doing a new stand-up show because I felt I had something to say again. Arriving at middle age I felt I needed to say stuff.’

WHOOPI GOLDBERG is set to star in a new US sitcom. She has signed up to the pilot of Delores & Jermaine, created by comedian Jermaine Fower and based on his life as a young man with big ideas, but little motivation, who moves in with his grandmother (Goldberg). The pilot is being shot for ABC.

THE exhibition documenting the career of Sir Norman Wisdom in Leicester's De Montford Hall will be open for more than two months longer than planned after proving popular with visitors. It was due to close at the end of the city's comedy festival on February 22, but will now remain open until May 2.

AMERICAN comedy institution Second City is to run workshops in London for the first time. The organisation that was previously home to Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Mike Myers, Amy Poehler and John Belushi, will be running classses for comedians at the Angel Comedy Club in London in May. Details

Published: 18 Feb 2015