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The week's best comedy on demand
30/01/2021 … The week's best comedy on demand.
2021 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 30 January 2021
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© BBC Lee Mack: I want to give Bobby Ball a funeral on Not Going Out
With Tommy Cannon as the priest
30/01/2021 … Lee Mack plans to give Bobby Ball a fitting send-off in the next series of Not Going Out - with Tommy Cannon leading the honours.
Fri 29 January 2021
Britain’s Got Talent 2021 cancelled
Covid means this year's talent show is off
29/01/2021 … Britain’s Got Talent has officially been cancelled for 2021.
From despair to celebration
Comic who planned suicide now hosts a marathon gig to toast life
29/01/2021 … A comedian who was moments from taking his own life seven years ago is hosting a marathon live-streamed gig in celebration of positivity.
Kurt Braunohler develops birth centre comedy
New sitcom Pushing in development at NBC
29/01/2021 … Comedian Kurt Braunohler is developing a US sitcom set in a birth centre.
Comedians announced for Dating No Filter
Line-up revealed for new Sky format
29/01/2021 … Comedians including Daisy May Cooper, Joel Dommett, Judi Love and Tom Allen are to provide the voiceover on Sky’s new dating show Dating No Filter.
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders to celebrate female comics
Duo to front Funny Women show for the Gold channel
29/01/2021 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to front a new one-off show to address the question: ‘Are women funny?’ Filmed on the set of their sketch show, …
Thu 28 January 2021
Comedians to enter the Bake-Off tent
Celebs announced for next charity series
28/01/2021 … Katherine Ryan, Tom Allen, David Baddiel and Reece Shearsmith, Rob Beckett and John Bishop are among the stars taking part in this year’s Great Celebrity…