Armando Iannucci pens a Covid play
Satirist returns to politics with Pandemonium
04/08/2023 … Armando Iannucci’s play about the government's response to the Covid pandemic is to open in London in December.
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Fri 04 August 2023
Eddie Izzard bids to be Brighton MP
Comic wants to be Labour candidate in Caroline Lucas's seat
04/08/2023 … Eddie Izzard is hoping to stand as for election as a Labour MP in Brighton.
© BBC Have I Got News For You 'not offensive to gingers'
04/08/2023 … When Diane Abbott said Jewish people did not face racism, but prejudice similar to gingers, it was inevitably going to make Have I Got News For You.
Wed 02 August 2023
© Big Deal Films Dreaming Whilst Black heads to the US
New audience for Adjani Salmon’s comedy
02/08/2023 … Adjani Salmon’s BBC comedy Dreaming Whilst Black is to air in the US.
© Expectation/UKTV Katherine Ryan to make a parenting show with her family
Testing out child-rearing tips on Parental Guidance
02/08/2023 … Katherine Ryan is to invite TV cameras into her family life as she tries a series of ‘extreme parenting techniques’ for a documentary series.
© Apple TV+ Criminally talented! Top names join Noel Fielding's highwayman comedy
Famous names galore in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
02/08/2023 … Apple TV+ has today announced a star-studded cast joining Noel Fielding in the upcoming comedy series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 panel announced
...as the Fringe gets under way
02/08/2023 … The judging panel for this year’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards has been announced, as the first previews at the Fringe get under way.
Sex worker turned comic Bella Green dies at 38
Friends launch crowdfunder for Aussie stand-up's funeral
02/08/2023 … Australian sex worker turned stand-up comedian Bella Green has died aged 38.