Field trip
09/06/2018 … This week's comedy on demand… Susan Calman's Mrs BrightsideOur on-demand round-up is something of a BBC podcast special this week, with several new programmes…
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Sat 09 June 2018
Banned: A comedy show about autism
Protesters silence mum they think is mocking disability
09/06/2018 … A comedian who talks with humour about raising a child with autism has been banned from speaking at a disability event.
A Damned shame
C4 drops Jo Brand's social worker sitcom
09/06/2018 … Channel 4 has dropped Jo Brand’s social work sitcom Damned.
Fri 08 June 2018
OBE for Carry On star Fenella Fielding
And damehood for Emma Thompson
08/06/2018 … Carry On actress Fenella Fielding has been made an an OBE for services to drama and charity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
New tributes to three troubled comedy geniuses
With unseen material from Hancock, Williams and Sellers
08/06/2018 … Sky Arts has commissioned new documentaries on Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers and Kenneth Williams featuring previously unseen diary entries, letters and photographs,…
New channel brings US comedies to Britain
Including The Mick and Will & Grace
08/06/2018 … American comedy series The Mick is coming to the UK thanks to a new free-to-air channel – two months after it was cancelled in the States.
Lost Voice Guy helps others find their voice
BBC show invites stories from disabled people
08/06/2018 … Lost Voice Guy Lee Ridley is encouraging disabled people to share the stage with him at the Edinburgh Festival as part of a BBC show.
Ade Edmondson and Nigel Planer reunite for stage comedy
Vulcan 7 based around a fantasy movie
08/06/2018 … Young Ones stars Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer have reunited to create a new stage comedy based around the filming of a fantasy movie.