Quebec comedy festival becomes a Just For Laughs
As new parent company ComediHa! rebrands as Just For Entertainment
18/10/2024 … Quebec’s comedy festival is to be renamed Just For Laughs after its organisers snapped up the brand name.
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Fri 18 October 2024
© BBC Filming starts on the final series of Man Like Mobeen
Guz Khan returns for a fifth run
18/10/2024 … Filming has begun on the fifth and final series of Gus Khan’s Man Like Mobeen.
Thu 17 October 2024
La Clique announces its 2024 line-up
Returning to London's Leicester Square
17/10/2024 … The line-up has been announced for the 20th anniversary season of the La Clique cabaret and burlesque show, which returns to London this Christmas.
Shrinking gets a third series
AppleTV+ renews Jason Segel, Brett Goldstein and Bill Bill Lawrence comedy
17/10/2024 … Apple TV+ has ordered a third series of Shrinking, the therapy-based comedy co-created by Brett Goldstein.
US Have I Got News For You host to present the BBC original.
Roy Wood Jr takes the chair in presidential election week
17/10/2024 … The host of the American version of Have I Got News For You is to host the BBC original.
Who's on Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains series 6
Comedy Central show returns this month
17/10/2024 … The guests have been revealed for the sixth series of Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains.
George Egg launches Stuffed! podcast
17/10/2024 … Comedian and culinary social media star George Egg has launched a new podcast deploying his unusual approach to cookery.
Wed 16 October 2024
Comedy fundraiser for Liverpool baby hospice
16/10/2024 … Liverpool’s Hot Water Comedy Club is arranging a fundraising night to help save a local baby hospice Zoe’s Place in West Derby may have to close by…