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Officers demand the 'offensive' title be changed
10/07/2024 … Police officers are demanding ITV change the name of its new comedy about trainee cops – saying the title Piglets is ‘disgusting’ and ‘offensive’.
Hotel seeks 'banter butler' to entertain in exchange for accommodation
09/07/2024 … Hotel chain Marriott has been slammed for ‘massively undermining’ the value of comedians after asking them to perform gigs in exchange for accommodation…
Comics star in new video from Stamptown's Dylan Woodley
08/07/2024 … British-based comics, including Olga Koch, Mark Silcox, Viggo Venn and Maddy and Marina Bye of Siblings, are starring in a new Adult Swim video from Dylan Woodley.
Picture of Marty Feldman unveiled in his old drinking haunt
08/07/2024 … This portrait of Marty Feldman is being unveiled today – on what would have been his 90th birthday – in one of his regular haunts.
Harry Hill, Vic Reeves and Joe Lycett in the Summer Exhibition
07/07/2024 … Harry Hill, Vic Reeves and Joe Lycett have all had artworks accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts’ prestigious Summer Exhibition.
© BBC/Various Artists Limited The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
07/07/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday July 8 SPENT: Stand-up Michelle de Swarte writes and stars in the loosely…
The best of the week's live comedy
07/07/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
...but comic says she now feels recovered from her 'tests and trials'
06/07/2024 … Miranda Hart says she’s been through some dark times over a ‘very unexpected’ decade of her life.
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