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© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 Rebel Wilson to host the company's first Australian commission
20/08/2019 … Amazon is launching its first original programming in Australia: a TV comedy competition with a £55,000 first prize.
Channel 4 renews Rufus Jones's asylum-seeker comedy
20/08/2019 … Rufus Jones's asylum seeker sitcom Home is returning for a second series, Chortle can reveal.
Noel James had been using the award-winning gag long before Olaf Falafel
20/08/2019 … The Dave Joke Of The Fringe competition is facing a new controversy, after it emerged that Olaf Falafel was not the first to crack it.
© BBC/Zeppotron Filming starts in Spain next week
20/08/2019 … Romesh Ranganathan, Alan Carr, Lee Mack and Tom Davis are to take part in the next League Of Their Own Road Trip.
Babatunde Aléshé crowned at Edinburgh Fringe
20/08/2019 … Babatunde Aléshé has won this year’s Amused Moose National New Comic award.
Charity demands apology from Fringe comic Olaf Falafel
19/08/2019 … It might seem like a harmless pun – but the line named ‘joke of the Fringe’ today has been slammed as offensive.
1980s-set comedy launches next month
19/08/2019 … Sky One has announced that Sarah Kendall’s new comedy Frayed is to launch on September 26.
Crazed driver followed him for 80 miles
19/08/2019 … Jason Manford has told of his terror of being chased for 80 miles by a crazed road-rage driver.
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