Barry Cryer pays tribute to comedy greats
...in a new series for Sky Arts
03/09/2018 … Barry Cryer is to celebrate some of the giants of comedy who he’s worked with in a new series for Sky Arts.
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Mon 03 September 2018
'Look at you, disabled bitch'
Mum's vile outburst at Tanyalee Davis caught on video
03/09/2018 … Tanyalee Davis has released a video showing a fellow train passenger calling her a ‘disabled bitch’.
Manchester gets its first podcast festival
Comedians feature in the inaugural event
03/09/2018 … Russell Kane, Richard Herring and Deborah Frances-White’s Guilty Feminist are among the attractions in the first ever Manchester Podcast Festival next month.
Rum and joke
Captain Morgan signs Comedy Central sponsorship deal
03/09/2018 … Comedy Central has struck a ten-month sponsorship deal with Captain Morgan rum.
Book deal for Instagram comedian Celeste Barber
Challenge Accepted! to be published this month
03/09/2018 … Australian comedian Celeste Barber has secured a UK publisher for her book Challenge Accepted! The stand-up has become an Instagram sensation for her photographs…
Comedians named for musical panel show
John Thomson, Rob Rouse and Pippa Evans
03/09/2018 … John Thomson, Rob Rouse and Pippa Evans are all taking part in a new musical-based panel show for BBC Two.
© Channel 5 Lock her up!
Shazia Mirza confined to solitary for new reality show
03/09/2018 … Shazia Mirza has been locked in solitary confinement for several days for a new Channel 5 reality show.
New Harold Pinter comedy sketch makes its debut
...about a trigger-happy American president
03/09/2018 … A new comedy sketch by Harold Pinter – unearthed almost ten years after his death – is to premiere on the West End stage this week.