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Comic reveals audiences' angry responses to personal material
13/05/2021 … He has won plaudits for talking about his mental health on stage, but James Acaster has revealed that addressing the topic has not always gone down so well with…
© BBC Studios Rumours surface of a second series
13/05/2021 … David Tennant and Michael Sheen could be reuniting for new series of Good Omens, it has been reported today.
Autobiographical tale of a blind comedian uprooted to a new home
13/05/2021 … Comedian Jamie MacDonald has been commissioned to write a BBC radio comedy-drama based on his his own life.
Channel 4 sets air date for retrospective dedicated to Paul Ritter
12/05/2021 … Channel 4’s salute to a decade of Friday Night Dinner will air on May 28, the broadcaster has announced.
Taxi driver lost his eye and his job after assault at The Stand
12/05/2021 … A comedy club punter has been found guilty of assault after attacking a heckler.
Tony Hinchcliffe's vile response to compere Peng Dang
12/05/2021 … Footage of an American comedian unleashing a racist tirade at a colleague on stage has gone viral.
© BBC ...as BBC releases first image from Stephen Merchant’s new comedy
12/05/2021 … Julia Davis and Richard E.
40 hours of clips of idiotic crooks coming a cropper
12/05/2021 … Comedy Central has commissioned a clip show featuring ‘some of the most inept criminals the planet has to offer’.
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