Air date for John Kearns’s The Varnishing Days
...as C4 snaps up Jordan Gray's Is It A Bird?
09/08/2024 … Sky Comedy is to air John Kearns’s acclaimed stand-up show The Varnishing Days on August 31.
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Roy Wood Jr to host America's Have I Got News For You
Series starts on CNN next month
08/08/2024 … Former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr.
Sarah Hadland joins Strictly
Miranda's co-star says: 'Im ready for the glitz'
08/08/2024 … Miranda star Sarah Hadland has been named as the latest contestant taking part in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.
Mawaan Rizwan joins the Rocky Horror Show
Comic to play the narrator in London run
08/08/2024 … Mawaan Rizwan is to star in the stage version of the Rocky Horror Show when it hits London’s West End next month.
Jennifer Saunders climbs onto The Magic Faraway Tree
08/08/2024 … Jennifer Saunders has been cast in the upcoming film adaptation of Enid Blyton’s children's classic, The Magic Faraway Tree.
Scottish comedy stalwart Ron Bain dies at 79
Actor and director behind several hit shows
08/08/2024 … Ron Bain, who appeared in a swathe of Scottish TV comedies in the 1980s has died aged 79.
Wed 07 August 2024
© Trevor Leighton Jack Whitehall’s fortune grows by £2m
New accounts show a good year his company
07/08/2024 … Jack Whitehall’s fortune has grown by almost £2million in a year.
© BBC Comedians, ready? Stand-ups to take on the Gladiators
Rob Beckett, Joel Dommett and Ellie Taylor join Louise Minchin in celeb special
07/08/2024 … Comedians Rob Beckett, Joel Dommett and Ellie Taylor are to take on the Gladiators in a new celebrity special.