Munya Chawawa to front a BBC election satire
13/06/2024 … Munya Chawawa is to host a satirical Radio 4 show about the general election campaign, it has been announced today.
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Thu 13 June 2024
© Pierre Rosa / Pixabay How big is the UK comedy industry?
A new survey hopes to find out
13/06/2024 … The Live Comedy Association is launching what it hopes to be the first major study of the UK stand-up scene.
Marty Gleeson wins LGBTQ+ comedy competition
13/06/2024 … Marty Gleeson has been crowned winner of the Comedy Bloomers LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year.
Armando Iannucci 'to be made a CBE'
Despite savaging Rishi Sunak over Covid
13/06/2024 … Armando Iannucci is to be recognised in the King’s birthday honours, it has been reported today.
Larry Dean to host a celeb scandal podcast
13/06/2024 … Larry Dean has signed up to co-host a new BBC Sounds podcast with Stacey Dooley In Famously…On Trial the pair put celebrities in the dock’ to…
Wed 12 June 2024
© Netflix London Hughes has two TV shows in the pipeline
Including one based on her stand-up breakthrough. To Catch A D*ck
12/06/2024 … London Hughes is working on two TV series with Kevin Hart’s production company – including a spin-off from her breakthough stand-up show, To Catch…
Mortimer and Whitehouse land an eighth series of Gone Fishing
Show will focus on places important to Paul or Bob
12/06/2024 … The BBC has commissioned an eighth series of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.
Tue 11 June 2024
Mad Ron launches a podcast
‘Uxbridge’s third hardest man’ tries to recruit comics to his gang
11/06/2024 … Hardman comedy character Mad Ron is launching a podcast on Monday.