© Sharon Graphics / Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 Mel Brooks to receive an honorary Oscar
Comedian is already an EGOT winner
27/06/2023 … Mel Brooks is to receive an honorary Oscar, it has been announced.
2023 News
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Tue 27 June 2023
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Live UK dates for This Paranormal Life podcast
Rory Powers and Kit Grier Mulvenna announce Flat World Tour
27/06/2023 … Rory Powers and Kit Grier Mulvenna are bringing their podast This Paranormal Life to the UK.
Mon 26 June 2023
Operation Mincemeat extends its West End run
Wartime farce now runs to November
26/06/2023 … Comedy musical Operation Mincemeat has extended its West End run for six weeks until November 4.
© C4 The Horne Section gets a second series
With Reggie Watts, Ronni Ancona, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Stevie Martin and Anna Crilly joining the cast
26/06/2023 … The Horne Section is to return to Channel 4 for a second series, with Reggie Watts joining the cast.
Agency deal for Paralympian turned stand-up
Comedy Store Management signs Ricky Balshaw
26/06/2023 … He is a Paralympic equestrian star who turned to comedy.
Tom Rosenthal spends a week in jail
For a new Channel 4 documentary show
26/06/2023 … Tom Rosenthal has spent the last week behind bars in Shrewsbury Prison.
© UKTV Who's in series 3 of David Mitchell's Outsiders?
Comedians for next season revealed
26/06/2023 … The comedians taking part in the next series of David Mitchell's Outsiders have been revealed.
Sun 25 June 2023
© Sky UK Ltd/CPL Productions Could Maisie Adam and Katherine Ryan be Lionesses?
Comics put through their footballing paces for Sky show
25/06/2023 … Maisie Adam and Katherine Ryan have been training with England’s top women’s footballers for a new Sky show.