A tight 5: September 22

THE first batch of guests have been unveiled for the next series of Room 101. Recording starts on the next run of eight episodes next month, with guests for the first four shows revealed as David Mitchell and Anita Rani; Davina McCall and Rob Delaney; Catherine Tate and Rylan Clarke-Neal; and Frankie Boyle and Nicola Adams. Tickets for the recordings are available here.

ALAN DAVIES is to release a new stand-up DVD. Little Victories was recorded at the at the Wellington Opera House in New Zealand as part of his last tour, and will be released on November 28. Preorder.

SERIAL prankster Simon Brodkin has announced a 54-date tour for the first half of next year. The comic – who showered Fifa president Sepp Blatter with fake money and presented Donald Trump with swastika-emblazoned golf balls – starts his Serious Joker tour in Bury St Edmonds on February 17. (Website). A documentary about Brodkin's stunts will air on Channel 4 later this year.

BREXIT supporter David Czerwonko, 26, has admitted snatching Eddie Izzard's beret during a pro-EU rally in Whitehall on September 3. The chef, who has lived in the UK for two and a half years, was fined £185, and ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge and £85 court costs.

DYING LAUGHING, a documentary about stand-up featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Billy Connolly, Steve Coogan, Eddie Izzard, Jerry Lewis, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman and the late Garry Shandling has landed a US distributor. Gravitas Ventures now plans to release the movie in North American cinemas and on demand in the first quarter of next year.

Published: 22 Sep 2016