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© Christopher William Adach/Creative Commons Alongside Robbie Coltrane as a comedian under scrutiny
22/01/2016 … Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough are to join Robbie Coltrane in a new Channel 4 drama about a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police…
© Paul Rider Yewtree-inspired drama for Channel 4
22/01/2016 … Robbie Coltrane is to play a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police operation into historic sex crimes.
22/01/2016 … Bill Cosby has won a legal victory in his battle against a flurry of sexual abuse allegations.
22/01/2016 … •‘Nothing that is mere wordplay is ever witty, so the man who makes puns must do all his own laughing.
Emma Bunton and Vicky Pattison play detective
21/01/2016 … Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton and Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison are to play detective in the next series of Murder In Successville.
21/01/2016 … Philomena Cunk has been given her own show – about Shakespeare.
And she's ready to take a lie detector test
21/01/2016 … Amy Schumer has promised to take a lie detector test to show that she hasn’t stolen jokes.
© Richard Davenport Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn return to male depression
21/01/2016 … Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn – whose comic-theatre show about depression Fake It 'Til You Make It was a fringe hit last year – have signed…
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