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© BBC/James Stack The week's best comedy on TV and radio
23/04/2023 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week: Sunday April 23 THE REAL McCOY: The fifth series of the groundbreaking 1990s sketch…
23/04/2023 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
Dame Edna creator had been in hospital after hip surgery complications
22/04/2023 … Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89 after being hospitalised earlier this week due to complications from hip surgery.
Comedy festival wraps up after 7,000+ performances
22/04/2023 … Musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff has won the top award for most outstanding show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Sunlight co-stars Shenoah Allen... and a monkey outfit
21/04/2023 … Nina Conti has wrapped filming on her first movie as a director.
Handed out by the city's comedy festival
21/04/2023 … Julian Clary has been given this year’s Bath Plug Award for outstanding services to comedy.
© BBC Gold channel to broadcast 40-year-old programme
21/04/2023 … The pilot episode of Blackadder is to be broadcast for the first time.
© ITV Sitcom lasted just six episodes
21/04/2023 … ITV has cancelled its sitcom The Family Pile after just one series.
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