Mo Gilligan pilots BBC gameshow
UK version of Jimmy Fallon's That's My Jam
17/12/2021 … Mo Gilligan is working on a British version of the comedy gameshow That's My Jam for the BBC.
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Fri 17 December 2021
Leicester Comedy Festival announces its 2022 finalists
New acts, silver stand-ups and pun-slingers...
17/12/2021 … The Leicester Comedy Festival has announced the finalists in its competitions for next year.
Big push to get sweary Boris Johnson song to Christmas No 1
17/12/2021 … Cassetteboy has made a new remix of Boris Johnson's speeches, in a bid to get comedian Kunt And The Gang to Christmas No1.
New podcast for Nigel Ng
To coincide with his Haiyaa world tour
17/12/2021 … Nigel Ng has launched a new podcast about disappointment.
Thu 16 December 2021
Liz Carr joins Good Omens
Series 2 currently being shot in Scotland
16/12/2021 … Comedian and Silent Witness star Liz Carr has been cast in the second series of Good Omens.
John Cleese to complain about 'tone' of BBC interviewer
Watch the video as comic takes umbrage at line of questioning
16/12/2021 … John Cleese says he will make a formal complaint to the BBC – after a journalist challenged him in a discussion about free speech.
'This is pushing our industry to the edge'
Pleas for government help as stay-at-home advice batters live comedy
16/12/2021 … The Live Comedy Association has called for immediate government support to prop up the sector, saying stay-at-home guidance was ‘pushing our industry to the…
© C4/Hat Trick Chelmsford 123 has been excavated...
Revived version of Ancient Roman comedy released
16/12/2021 … Ancient Roman comedy Chelmsford 123 has been revived, 31 years after it last aired on Channel 4.