The Iceman gets exposure
New book about legend of the alternative comedy scene
19/01/2023 … Alternative comedy legend The Iceman has been immortalised in a new book.
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Thu 19 January 2023
© C4 Derry Girls to get their own museum exhibition
'It could draw visitors from far and wide'
19/01/2023 … A new exhibition dedicated to Derry Girls is to open, in a bid to lure more tourists to the city where the Channel 4 comedy was set.
Wed 18 January 2023
Police to investigate comic's antisemitic abuse
...as pub at the centre of storm insists: 'There's no racism here'
18/01/2023 … Police are investigating the racist threats made to Jewish comedian Katie Price during the Arsenal vs Spurs clash on Sunday.
Tue 17 January 2023
© BBC Found! The last missing episode of The Navy Lark
Radio comedy's archive is now shipshape
17/01/2023 … The archives of classic radio comedy The Navy Lark have been completed after a public appeal found the last missing episode.
Mon 16 January 2023
Comedians clean up at Writers' Guild awards
16/01/2023 … Comedians Adam Kay, Jack Rooke and Michael Spicer all took home gongs at the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards tonight.
Comic subjected to violent antisemitic abuse
...and when Katie Price complained, SHE was the one thrown out of pub
16/01/2023 … Comedian Katie Price has spoken of how she was violently threatened during an antisemitic attack in a London pub yesterday.
Radio 4 announces a raft of new comedy shows
With Jordan Gray, Maisie Adam, Jonathan Pie and more
16/01/2023 … Jordan Gray, Maisie Adam and Jonathan Pie are all making new Radio 4 programmes, the broadcaster has announced today.
Paul Merton returns to Room 101
As the format goes back to its radio roots
16/01/2023 … Paul Merton is returning to host of Room 101 as the talk show format returns to radio.