Comedy Central renews Roast Battle
Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan to return
13/06/2018 … Comedy Central has renewed its Roast Battle for a second series.
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© BBC Dad's Army gets a blue plaque
...at the hotel where cast used to stay
12/06/2018 … Dad's Army is to be commemorated with a blue plaque at the pub where cast and crew stayed while filming on location.
New Netflix series for Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan
Panel show to fix the world's problems
12/06/2018 … Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan are to star in a new comedy panel show for Netflix.
Queen honours Melbourne Comedy Fest chief
Susan Provan made an Officer of the Order Of Australia
12/06/2018 … Melbourne comedy festival boss Susan Provan has said she is ‘proud’ that the artform has been recognised after being honoured by the Queen.
Dani Dyer to appear in a horror film about a stand-up
...alongside Clark Gable's grandson as a heckler
12/06/2018 … Love Island’s Dani Dyer is to appear in a new horror film about a stand-up comedian stalked by a fiendish heckler.
Channel 4 picks up Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
Six episodes of his consumer affairs show ordered
12/06/2018 … Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back after a successful pilot of the comedy consumer affairs show.
Deborah Frances-White pens Guilty Feminist book
With contributions from fellow comedians
12/06/2018 … Deborah Frances-White has written a book based on her podcast The Guilty Feminist.
Royal Mail issues Dad's Army stamps
To mark 50 years of the sitcom
12/06/2018 … The cast of Dad’s Army are to be immortalised in a new set of stamps.