Jack Whitehall to front World Cup series
Original commission for YouTube
28/11/2017 … Jack Whitehall is to front a YouTube series about next year’s football World Cup.
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Tue 28 November 2017
What on earth are we doing here?
Riddle of how comedians' photos came to be in a Canadian underpass
28/11/2017 … British-based comedians have been stunned to learn that their images are being used in a public art project in Canada.
Who are this year's Slapstick comedians?
28/11/2017 … Ade Edmondson, Lee Mack, Christopher Biggins and Jo Brand are among the stars set to appear at Bristol’s Slapstick comedy festival in January.
© BBC/Baby Cow A-has from the past!
Unseen Alan Partridge footage in new BBC documentary
28/11/2017 … The BBC is to mark the return of Alan Partridge with a documentary about the character’s rise featuring archive footage never previously broadcast.
Comedians animate the inanimate
Doodlebugs launches as part of BBC One's Christmas line-up
28/11/2017 … Comics including Kayvan Novak, Morgana Robinson, Spencer Jones and the Cardinal Burns duo are to give voices to everday objects in a new animated sketch show.
Mon 27 November 2017
Charlie Brooker cancels 2017 Wipe
Satirist too busy on other shows
27/11/2017 … Charlie Brooker will not be making a 2017 Wipe, he has announced.
BBC makes a Brexit sitcom
...about that tricky Irish border issue
27/11/2017 … The BBC is making a Brexit sitcom about the controversy surrounding the Irish border.
Comic apologises over Down's Syndrome line
Barry Castagnola vows never to use it again
27/11/2017 … Stand-up Barry Castagnola has apologised for making a joke comparing himself to ‘Daniel Craig with Down’s Syndrome’.