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Last Leg to return – with hosts 17,000km apart
22/04/2020 … Adam Hills is to host the next series of The Last Leg from his garage in Melbourne.
2020 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 22 April 2020
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Bill Murray venue: We need charity to survive
...as the fate of comedy clubs is raised in the Commons
22/04/2020 … London’s Bill Murray comedy venue says it will not survive the coronavirus lockdown unless fans bail it out.
© Marcin Wichary/CC BY-SA 2.0 End of an era as New York's UCB Theatre close
Hub for sketch and improv comedy
22/04/2020 … It has been one of the most important cogs of the New York comedy scene for more than 20 years – but the Upright Citizens Brigade last night announced…
BBC rejects complaints over drag queen's Belgrano joke
'Viewers would know what to expect'
22/04/2020 … Complaints that a joke about the sinking of the Belgrano went too far have been rejected by the BBC’s standards unit.
BBC has another bite at What We Do In The Shadows
Fangs again! Broadcaster buys series two of vampire comedy
22/04/2020 … BBC Two has snapped up the rights to the second series of vampire houseshare sitcom What We Do In The Shadows.
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Natasia Demetriou to host Netflix's The Big Flower Fight with Vic Reeves
22/04/2020 … Natasia Demetriou is to co-host new Netflix series The Big Flower Fight with Vic Reeves, the streaming service has announced today.
© BBC/Objective Fiction Matt Berry to make more BBC Two mockumentaries
Four Squeamish About… episodes ordered
22/04/2020 … BBC Two has commissioned Matt Berry to make a new series of offbeat mockumentaries.
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New shorts on dealing with lockdown
22/04/2020 … Comics including Bob Mortimer, Kerry Godliman and Tom Allen are to take part in a new series of BBC Two comedy shorts shot in isolation.