Tributes as Norm Macdonald dies at 61
'So relentlessly and uncompromisingly funny'
14/09/2021 … Tributes have been paid to Canadian comedian Norm Macdonald after his death at the age of 61.
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Who's joining Matt Forde’s Political Party?
13/09/2021 … More guests have been announced for the West End residency of Matt Forde’s Political Party.
© Nathan Cox Early Doors stage show released as video-on-demand
Limited period charity released.
13/09/2021 … The stage version of Early Doors has been released via video-on-demand in aid of charity.
Brighton gets a new comedy competition
13/09/2021 … Brighton comedy promoters Otherplace have launched a new act competition for up-and-coming acts in South East England.
© Sky/IWC Media Frank Skinner to follow the romantic poets
New series with novelist Denise Mina for Sky Arts
13/09/2021 … Frank Skinner is to follow in the footsteps of romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor-Coleridge for a new Sky series.
© BBC New images from Stephen Merchant's The Outlaws
BBC One series with Christopher Walken
13/09/2021 … The BBC has released a cache of images from Stephen Merchant's upcoming comedy-drama The Outlaw.
© Netflix Three Emmys for Bo Burnham
Accolades for his Netflix special Inside
13/09/2021 … Bo Burnham has won his first Emmy awards, for his Netflix special Inside.
© Stuart Hogben How Josh Widdicombe's family were Tudor courtiers
But Joe Lycett's ancestor was a child chimney-sweep
13/09/2021 … Joe Lycett and Josh Widdicombe are to delve into their family backgrounds in the next series of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? The comedians are…