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© Open Mike The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
07/11/2021 … Here’s our pick of the week’s best comedy programmes on TV, radio and on-demand this week: Sunday November 7 IN MY SKIN: This award-winning…
07/11/2021 … The best of the week's live comedy.
© BBC 06/11/2021 … Welsh stand-up Anna Thomas has won this year’s BBC New Comedy Award.
90-minute Christmas special commissioned
05/11/2021 … Joe Lycett is to host a ‘huge queer party’ on Channel 4 this Christmas.
Flashback after Blair dies at 92
05/11/2021 … In honour of Lionel Blair, who died yesterday at the age of 92, we reprint this story from September 21, 2006, in which he and Alan Carr saved a man's life.
Manchester run for Broadway hit, written by John O’Farrell
05/11/2021 … A musical version of Mrs Doubtfire is coming to the UK next year.
Watch the MP's first bash at comedy
04/11/2021 … Labour frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth performed his first stand-up comedy gig last night.
Emily Allen takes a new job Boffola Pictures
04/11/2021 … Boffola Pictures, the production company set up by former BBC comedy chiefs Shane Allen and Kate Daughton, has made its first appointment Emily Allen –…
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