© BBC Mackenzie Crook unearths more Detectorists
31/03/2017 … Mackenzie Crook’s Detectorists is to return for a third series, the BBC has announced.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 31 March 2017
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Ed Sheeran, the 'little hip-hop leprechaun'
31/03/2017 … • 'I'm genuinely jealous of a woman's ability to give birth' Stuart Goldsmith.
David Baddiel is adapting his stand-up show for TV
My Family: Not The Sitcom could be heading for our screens
31/03/2017 … David Baddiel is adapting his acclaimed theatrical stand-up show My Family: Not The Sitcom for television.
Only Fools revival 'will never happen'
Stars rule out a return after creator's death
31/03/2017 … An Only Fools and Horses comeback will ‘never happen’, star Nicholas Lyndhurst has stated.
Eddie Izzard pulls out of Palestine Marathon
In response to protests over his Israel gig
31/03/2017 … Eddie Izzard dropped out of today’s Palestine Marathon amid protests over his gig in Israel last night.
Thu 30 March 2017
Eddie Izzard runs into a Palestinian storm
30/03/2017 … He has impeccable left-wing credentials and is famed for preaching tolerance… but Eddie Izzard has found himself at the centre of protests over a gig he performed…
Gervais defends his 'dead baby' joke
Grieving couple walk out in distress
30/03/2017 … Ricky Gervais has hit back after a couple walked out of his stand-up show over a joke about a dead baby.
© Steve Ullathorne Sue Perkins to host the Baftas
30/03/2017 … SUE PERKINS is to host this year's Bafta TV Awards, replacing Graham Norton, who has done the job for the past nine years.