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Wed 05 November 2014
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Second R4 series for Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram
05/11/2014 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of Irish Micks And Legends from stand-ups Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram.
Dapper Laughs banned
Student union pulls his tour show
05/11/2014 … Cardiff University has pulled a gig from ‘lad’ comic Dapper Laughs after students protested that he ‘trivialised rape’ and ‘dehumanised women’.
Michael McIntyre to host Royal Variety Performance
05/11/2014 … Michael McIntyre to host this year’s Royal Variety Performance, it has been announced.
Katy Wix joins Chortle book fest
05/11/2014 … KATY WIX has joined the Chortle Comedy Book Festival.
Tue 04 November 2014
Reece Shearsmith and the haunted rectory
Work under way on animated horror 'documentary'
04/11/2014 … Reece Shearsmith is to star in a Gothic horror film about the most haunted house in England.
Comedians take over a City institution
Including a League Against Tedium revival
04/11/2014 … Comedians are to take over an historic City of London institution for a pop-up venue this Christmas.
Toast warms up in the ratings
04/11/2014 … MATT BERRY's Toast of London attracted 426,000 viewers to Channel 4 last night – up 18 per cent on the 361,000 viewers who watched the opening episode of the…