BBC launches scheme for disabled comedy editors
Two candidates to get career boosts
26/05/2023 … BBC Comedy have launched a scheme to try to redress the lack of disabled people editing in scripted comedy shows.
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Fri 26 May 2023
© Patrick Olner Rob Brydon: My days of writing scripted comedies are behind me
Comic says he doesn't have the same hunger as his Marion & Geoff days
26/05/2023 … Rob Brydon says his days of writing scripted comedy are behind him as he no longer has the hunger to prove himself.
© C4 Jimmy Carr's I Literally Just Told You gets a third series
26/05/2023 … Channel 4 has ordered a third series of Jimmy Carr gameshow I Literally Just Told You.
Jim Davidson appeals driving ban
Comic claims 'exceptional hardship' after being caught speeding
26/05/2023 … Jim Davidson has appeared at Southampton Crown Court in a bid to reverse a 12-month driving ban for speeding.
BBC Wales orders topical panel show
Robin Morgan and Kiri Pritchard-McLean to host What Just Happened?
26/05/2023 … Robin Morgan and Kiri Pritchard-McLean are to front a new topical panel show for BBC Radio Wales.
© Jacqui Double A 'wake' for alternative comedy pioneer Tony Allen
Friends to celebrate comic's life as his health fails
26/05/2023 … Friends of alternative comedy pioneer Tony Allen are organising a farewell gig for him after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Thu 25 May 2023
John Cleese: I'm not cutting the Loretta scene from Life Of Brian show
Comic says the press misrepresented him
25/05/2023 … John Cleese has denied reports that the ‘Loretta’ scene is going to be cut from the stage version of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian for fear it’s…
Scala Radio’s Classical Comedy Club returns
With Gyles Brandreth, Josie Long, Suzi Ruffell and Nina Wadia
25/05/2023 … Scala Radio’s Classical Comedy Club is returning for a second series.