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Also first tour for Edinburgh best newcomer Urooj Ashfaq
01/11/2023 … He’s already the hardest-working man in comedy – and now Jimmy Carr is packing in twice as many shows into his next stand-up tour.
© BBC Viewers express concern in Ofcom survey that also covered Jimmy Carr's rape jokes
31/10/2023 … Viewers have expressed shock that an ‘explicitly racist’ Little Britain sketch is still available on the BBC iPlayer in an official report into TV standards.
31/10/2023 … Comedian and anaesthetist Ed Patrick has announced a small tour for 2024.
Co-stars share their grief over the death of Matthew Perry at 54
31/10/2023 … Matthew Perry’s Friends co-stars have said they are ‘utterly devastated’ by his death at the age of 54.
Manchester's long-running new act competition reaches its climax
31/10/2023 … The finalists have been announced for this year’s Beat the Frog world series, the long-running talent competition run by Manchester’s Frog And Bucket…
Four-part show coming to Channel 4 soon
30/10/2023 … Bill Bailey is to front a new travel series, filmed in the remote wilderness of Western Australia The comic taped the four-part series this summer, taking a 15,000-mile…
30/10/2023 … Grace Campbell has launched a podcast in which she will go on 28 dates across two months, only meeting people who are the total opposite of her usual type.
As Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
29/10/2023 … Ghosts star Mathew Baynton is to make his debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Bottom in a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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