© Idil Sukan BBC Two picks up Nish Kumar-fronted satire
From the makers of The Daily Mash
24/03/2017 … BBC Two has picked up a spoof news show fronted by Nish Kumar.
2017 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 24 March 2017
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'At least I wasn't put in a Porta Potty by Macho Man Randy Savage'
24/03/2017 … • 'I was called Worzel at school because I had lots of blonde hair.
Thu 23 March 2017
London won't be getting the big purple cow this year
23/03/2017 … The giant purple cow will not be seen on London’s South Bank this summer.
Released at last: The Real McCoy
23/03/2017 … Pioneering sketch show The Real McCoy has been made available to buy for the first time in 23 years.
Brass Eye: The unseen footage
New documentary about the seminal comedy
23/03/2017 … The original director of Brass Eye has made a documentary about the controversial and groundbreaking series.
Radio 4 commissions Austentatious
Improv comedy to mark novelist's bicentenary
23/03/2017 … Hit improv troupe Austentatious, who create spontaneous stories in the style of Jane Austen, have landed their own Radio 4 show.
© Steve Ullathorne Hugh Dennis's new role – opposite Lord Leveson
From Mock The Week to legal drama
23/03/2017 … Hugh Dennis is to appear alongside Lord Leveson in a new play about a legal pioneer.
Jan Ravens to make her Fringe debut
New batch of shows go on sale today
23/03/2017 … Dead Ringers impressionist Jan Ravens is to make her Edinburgh debut this year.