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© Two Rivers Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain headline
25/05/2021 … Salisbury is to stage its first comedy festival – a day-long outdoor event headlined by Frankie Boyle and Dara O Briain.
25/05/2021 … Iain Stirling and his presenter wife Laura Whitmore; Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aléshé, and Gyles Brandreth & Maureen Lipman are all…
HBO renews Robin Thede's series
24/05/2021 … HBO has commissioned a third season of A Black Lady Sketch Show.
Stand-up scoops comedy writing gong
24/05/2021 … Sophie Willian has won a Bafta.
24/05/2021 … Sadia Azmat is to publish Sex Bomb, a ‘conversation-starting’ memoir about being a sexually liberated, hijab-wearing Muslim woman.
© Avalon German gets its own version of satirical puppet show
24/05/2021 … Germany is getting its own version of Spitting Image.
Comic volunteers to represent UK after another dismal result
24/05/2021 … Almost 1,000 people have signed Chortle’s petition for Bill Bailey to represent the UK at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
24/05/2021 … Hannah Gadsby has announced some new UK live dates.
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