Free Q&A with Billy Connolly
Virtual event to plug his Windswept & Interesting memoirs
30/11/2021 … Sir Billy Connolly is to take part in a virtual Q&A with fans to plug his bestselling autobiography, Windswept & Interesting, next week.
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Tue 30 November 2021
Bristol gets a new stand-up venue
Intimate Comedy Den opens this weekend
30/11/2021 … Bristol’s latest comedy venue is formally opening this weekend.
© Netflix Bo Burnham scoops Rose D'Or
Other honours for Horrible Histories and Call My Agent!
30/11/2021 … Bo Burnham’s lockdown special Inside has been named best comedy at this year’s Rose d’Or international TV awards.
Sara Pascoe announces Success Story tour
Biggest show yet with 50+ dates in 2022 and 2023
30/11/2021 … Sara Pascoe has announced her biggest UK stand-up yet, Success Story.
Mon 29 November 2021
© Netflix Merry Christmas! Jimmy Carr's next special out on Dec 25
His Dark Material coming to Netflix
29/11/2021 … Jimmy Carr’s third Netflix special, His Dark Material, is to be released on Christmas Day, he has revealed The comic broke the news on Twitter today…
Censored: Simpsons Tiananmen Square episode
Animated comedy suspiciously unavailable in Hong Kong
29/11/2021 … An episode of the Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square has reportedly been censored in Hong Kong.
© C4 Channel 4 appoints digital comedy commissioner
Charlie Hyland moves from production roles
29/11/2021 … Channel 4 has appointed Charlie Hyland as a digital commissioner focussing on comedy.
© Monumental Television Revealed: How BBC TV comedy output has HALVED in a decade
29/11/2021 … TV regulators have sounded the alarm after the amount of new comedy broadcast on the BBC plunged by more than half in a decade.