Sketch show for PhoneShop's Javone
...and BBC Two orders first transgender sitcom
21/08/2014 … PhoneShop star Javone Prince has landed his own BBC Two sketch series.
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Thu 21 August 2014
Roy Chubby Brown caught reading while driving
21/08/2014 … Roy Chubby Brown has been fined after reading a newspaper while driving.
© C4 E4 buys Gum
New comedy from award-winning playwright
21/08/2014 … E4 has greenlit a new comedy series about a Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old, bought up in a strict religious family in Tower Hamlets, east London.
Musical comic wins SYTYF?
Edinburgh triumph for Aidan Strangeman
21/08/2014 … Irish musical comedian Aidan Strangeman has won the annual So You Think You’re Funny? new talent hunt at the Edinburgh Fringe.
'Rip three kinds of shit out of me with a whip'
21/08/2014 … •'The quiet guy doing the show before me had an act where he dressed up as Mother Teresa.
Wed 20 August 2014
And the 2014 nominees are...
20/08/2014 … The nominees for this year’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards have been announced.
Changing the laws of physics
Second pilot for Adam Hills science show
20/08/2014 … Channel 4 is to make a second pilot of a comedy science show fronted by Adam Hills.
E4 orders Wittank pilot
Half-hour show for 'original and anarchic' trio
20/08/2014 … Channel 4 have commissioned a pilot from sketch trio Wittank.