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© Jeannie O’Brien Maeve Higgins apologises after chat show confession
05/04/2018 … Maeve Higgins has been criticised after telling how she feigned a disability to get her pet dog onto a flight.
Taking on the trolls, and the World Cup
05/04/2018 … Australia’s ABC has announced some new comedy podcasts.
Four nominees for Stewart Lee's musical
05/04/2018 … Jerry Springer: The Opera has been nominated for four of the most prestigious awards for off-Broadway Theatre, including best musical.
London's BFI dedicates a day to Spike
04/04/2018 … The British Film Institute is to devote a day of programming to Spike Milligan to mark the centenary of his birth this month in Ahmednagar, India.
Bafta nominates only half of several top comedy partnerships
04/04/2018 … This year’s Bafta nominees have been announced – with judges splitting up many comedy partnerships to shortlist just one of the performers.
© Chatham House/CC BY-SA 2.0 As debate rages over whether women are 'too modest' for the job
03/04/2018 … Jeremy Paxman is to host his first episode of Have I Got News For You This Friday.
People's Choice and wildcard semifinalists named
03/04/2018 … Cordelia Graham, a PGCE history student at the University of Sussex has won the People’s Choice place in the Chortle Student Comedy Award semi-finals.
Comic back on the road after quadruple bypass
03/04/2018 … Jasper Carrott has got back on the road following his quadruple heart bypass last year.
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