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Lucy Beaumont co-writes new show for Channel 4
02/07/2021 … Lucy Beaumont has written a new Channel 4 comedy, Hullraisers.
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Daniel Sloss and Bill Bailey top global ticket sales
Thanks to their tours down under
01/07/2021 … Daniel Sloss and Bill Bailey have been named the world’s best selling live comedians in the first six months of 2021.
Josh Jones pilots fast food TV show
01/07/2021 … Comic Josh Jones has fronted a new BBC pilot seeking ‘the best takeaway in town’.
Michael McIntyre's second memoirs revealed
01/07/2021 … Michael McIntyre is to release the second volume of his memoirs in October – in which he admits he did not make a great talk-show host.
First Edinburgh Fringe 2021 shows go on sale
More clues as to what this year's festival will look like
01/07/2021 … The first of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe shows are to go on sale from midday today.
© World Affairs Council of Philadelphia/CC BY-SA 2.0 Bill Cosby walks free after sexual assault conviction overturned
Comic celebrates victory... but will it derail other #MeToo reckonings?
01/07/2021 … Bill Cosby has walked free from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned.
Wed 30 June 2021
© Netflix Netflix locks in Catherine Tate
Comic will play several characters in prison-based mockumentary
30/06/2021 … Catherine Tate is to make a new Netflix mockumentary series set in a women’s prison In Hard Cell, she will play multiple characters as a film crew follows…
Slim and Joanne McNally announce London Palladium dates
30/06/2021 … Comics Joanne McNally and Slim have both announced London Palladium gigs as part of their new tours.