© C4/Avalon Line-up revealed for Taskmaster New Year Treat 2022
03/12/2021 … The line-up has been revealed for this year’s Taskmaster New Year Treat.
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Tributes paid to comedy promoter Emma Emslie following her death at 54
02/12/2021 … Tributes have been paid to London comedy promoter Emma Emslie, after her death was reported at the age of 54 With her husband Ron she ran the East Dulwich…
© Netflix Netflix to air Death To 2021
...but Charlie Brooker's not involved this year
02/12/2021 … Charlie Brooker’s production company has made another year-end round-up for Netflix… but the Black Mirror creator is not directly involved this time…
Corrie's Beverley Callard to play Morgana Robinson’s mum
In new Gold comedy Newark, Newark
02/12/2021 … Coronation Street star Beverley Callard has joined the cast of old's recently announced comedy, Newark, Newark.
Who's on Lost Voice Guy's Christmas Comedy Club?
02/12/2021 … The line-up has been revealed for the Christmas Comedy Club to be hosted by Lost Voice Guy on ITV.
© Matt Crockett New memoirs from Marks Watson and Steel
Audiobook releases via Audible
02/12/2021 … Mark Watson and Mark Steel have recorded exclusive audiobook memoirs for Audible.
Are all comedians just trying to make their parents say: 'I love you?
That's the premise of a new podcast...
02/12/2021 … Romesh Ranganathan, Tiff Stevenson, Jamali Maddix and Roisin Conaty are to open up about their relationships with their parents in a new podcast.
Ricky Gervais plans to revive his music ambitions
Comic releasing a song he wrote (but didn't sing) for After Life
02/12/2021 … He was famously in an unsuccessful New Wave band in the Eighties.