© Twitter/@weareleboom Blindboy Boatclub celebrated in street art
29/01/2018 … With his face tightly wrapped in a plastic bag, Blindboy Boatclub of comedy rap crew Rubberbandits has always made for a striking image.
Heroics after paddleboard accident
27/01/2018 … This has to go down as today’s most unlikely story: apparently Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder has saved TV Catchphrase star Roy Walker from drowning.
© Egor Kamelev 26/01/2018 … Tweets of the week Mansplaining is short for man explaining — Matt Kirshen (@mattkirshen) January 21, 2018 No prizes for guessing how stingy I…
...in a controversial new comic book
25/01/2018 … Stewart Lee has been bottled on stage… but thankfully, only in a comic book.
Stand comedy club director in dramatic mountain rescue
25/01/2018 … The director of The Stand comedy clubs, Kenny O’Brien, has been involved in a dramatic helicopter rescue in the Cairngorms.
© CBS 24/01/2018 … He’s already dogged by reports that he had a hushed-up extra-marital affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels – now Donald Trump must contend with…
© Alan West They asked me first, says Joel Dommett
23/01/2018 … It certainly won't come as a shock to anyone who was at the car-crash event – but Mike Read was not the first choice to interview Chevy Chase earlier this month.
...and he took the time to write a letter explaining exactly why
23/01/2018 … Gene Wilder had such a bad time on Frank Skinner’s chat show that he sent a handwritten letter telling the comedian what a terrible interviewer he was.
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