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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…
22/01/2016 … •‘Nothing that is mere wordplay is ever witty, so the man who makes puns must do all his own laughing.
© 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.
© BBC Ben Farrell goes back to indie Objective
22/01/2016 … The BBC’s in-house comedy department has lost its second executive in a week.
Playing Wonder Woman in one skecth
21/01/2016 … Kelly Brook is to appear in the planned new Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness sketch show.
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.
21/01/2016 … Philomena Cunk has been given her own show – about Shakespeare.
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