© Amanda Sims New radio series for John Shuttleworth
11/01/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of John Shuttleworth’s Lounge Music.
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Mon 11 January 2016
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Stone me! Missing Hancocks axed
BBC pulls plug with ten episodes still unrecorded
11/01/2016 … Radio 4 has axed its production of The Missing Hancocks after two series.
'Remember Bowie's Nazi leanings'
Robert Newman strikes a 'dissonant note' on stage
11/01/2016 … Comedian Rob Newman has reacted to the wave of posthumous admiration for David Bowie, by criticising the cultural icon’s flirtation with Nazism.
Comedians address the Cambridge Union
Following in prestigious footsteps...
11/01/2016 … Comedians including Janey Godley and Kate Smurthwaite are to debate romance in the Cambridge Union.
Gervais: I've been asked back to the Globes
Here are some of his gags from last night
11/01/2016 … Ricky Gervais says he's been asked back to host the Golden Globes.
Even a censored subtitle is f***ing offensive
Comedy Central rapped over bad language
11/01/2016 … Comedy Central has again been rapped by Ofcom - this time for offensive subtitles in an episode of its hidden camera show Impractical Jokers which aired in the…
Sun 10 January 2016
Puppy Love to return
Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine to make a US version
10/01/2016 … Axed BBC sitcom Puppy Love is to return – but in the States.
Alan Partridge meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The pick of the comedy week ahead
10/01/2016 … The pick of the comedy week ahead.