How Do You Cope? returns
...but Elis James doesn't as John Robins now hosts it alone
13/02/2025 … John Robins is making a new series of his podcast How Do You Cope? – but this time without Elis James.
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Thu 13 February 2025
Best In Class announces its 2025 line-up
Edinburgh Fringe showcase for working-class comedians
13/02/2025 … Best In Class have announced the lineup for their 2025 Edinburgh Fringe showcase of working-class comedians They are: Shawn Uyosa: A Nigerian-born Irish comedian…
© Tyler Bartlam That's punoriginal!
Pun champion accused of plagiarism
13/02/2025 … The winner of the year’s UK Pun Championships has been accused of using second-hand jokes to take the title.
© Objective Fiction Cast announced for Ola Labib's The Pharmacy
Comedy Blap dropping next month
13/02/2025 … Nabil Abdulrashid and Finlay Christie have joined the cast of fellow stand-up Ola Labib’s Channel 4 Comedy Blap, The Pharmacy.
Wed 12 February 2025
60,000 complain over Josh Howie's 'homophobic slur'
But comic insists GB News comment was a joke about paedophilia in churches
12/02/2025 … Comedian Josh Howie has attracted tens of thousands of complaints after making a joke on GB News that appeared to suggest the LGBT community included paedophiles.
© BBC Steve Coogan to star in The Good Life
An eco-drama, not a remake of the 1970s sitcom...
12/02/2025 … Steve Coogan is working on a film about greenwashing.
© Netflix Dave Chappelle honoured for being a 'voice of social consciousness'
Comic to receive award from NAACP civil rights group
12/02/2025 … It might come as news to the trans people upset by Dave Chappelle’s material about them – but the comedian is set to win a major award for being…
Sydney May takes Komedia's new act crown
Wes Defoe and Aiden Lonergan are runners-up
12/02/2025 … Sydney May was crowned winner of Komedia’s New Comedy Award in Brighton last night.