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Pete Davidson insists on an NDA for his stand-up
01/12/2019 … Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson is demanding fans sign a contract not to leak details of his stand-up set – on pain of a $1million penalty.
...but Mike Ward won't have to compensate the mother of the victim of his gags
30/11/2019 … Canadian comedian Mike Ward has lost his bid to overturn a £20,000 penalty for making bad-taste jokes about a disabled singer.
30/11/2019 … The week's comedy on demand Max & Ivan: Fugitives An eight-part comedy thriller, this podcast features Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez as two lowly…
For a new young adults collection
29/11/2019 … Shappi Khorsandi and Jenny Eclair are to write books for a new feminist publishing collection aimed at young adults.
He co-wrote Buffering with fellow comic Steve Bugeja
29/11/2019 … Iain Stirling is making a sitcom for ITV2, Chortle can reveal.
© BBC On the first anniversary of his death
29/11/2019 … Some of Jeremy Hardy’s best writing is to be published in a new anthology.
Not according to its showrunner
29/11/2019 … The Simpsons is NOT coming to an end, its long-serving showrunner has insisted.
Including Nick Mohammed, Sian Clifford, Asim Chaudhry and Jason Watkins
28/11/2019 … Nick Mohammed, Fleabag’s Sian Clifford and Chabuddy G star Asim Chaudhry a have joined the cast of Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins’s new comedy Hitmen.
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