A tight 5: June 20

David Baddiel's critically acclaimed stand-up show My Family: Not The Sitcom is to transfer to the West End. The show, which ends a six-week run at Menier Chocolate Factory on Saturday, will open at the Vaudeville Theatre on September 12 and is described as a 'massively disrespectful' celebration of Baddiel's late mother, Sarah, and dementia-ridden father, Colin. 'Pre-sale' tickets are available from 9am tomorrow. Read our review here.

RHOD GILBERT'S Work Experience is returning for a seventh series, with the comic filming four new episodes this summer to air on BBC Two nationwide in early 2017. The jobs he will take on have not yet been revealed.

THE BBC has confirmed the experts taking part in this autumn's special Horizon programme looking at the Science of Laughter and hosted by Jimmy Carr. They are Professor Sophie Scott from University College London, who studies how the brain processes laughter; Professor Robin Dunbar from Oxford, an evolutionary biologist; and Professor Pete McGraw from University of Colorado, whose theory is that all humour is a 'benign violation'

THE Greenwich Comedy Festival is to host a gala for Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK's Stand Up To Cancer campaign. Stewart Francis, Bobby Mair, Vikki Stone, Kojo and Matt Richardson will take part in the even on July 31 at 2.30pm.

BILL RICHMOND, who wrote jokes for Carol Burnett and Jerry Lewis, has died in his Californian home at the age of 94. His credits included co-writing the original Nutty Professor film, monologue jokes for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and scripts for The Carol Burnett Show, which earned him six Emmy nominations.

Published: 20 Jun 2016