The AI 'comedians' stealing jokes wholesale
'It feels incredibly violating'
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Bristol Improv Theatre closes unexpectedly
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Inside the turbulent mind of Maria Bamford
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Paul Whitehouse sees off a mugger
Paul Whitehouse has seen off a mugger near…
Comedians join The Madame Blanc Mysteries
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Rob Delaney to star in comedy-drama about addiction
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5 to air a celebration of Alan Carr
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Friends is to return to Channel 4 from January. The hit US sitcom originally ran…
Russell Brand is a ‘sexual predator’ with an ‘insatiable desire’,…
Michael Palin cancels book tour after fall
Sir Michael Palin has cancelled his upcoming book tour after he fractured his ribs…
Sam Nicoresti wins Sky Arts Award
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Lena Dunham is bringing back Girls. A new limited series of five episodes is set…
Tour news
Features
Why great comedy podcasts are getting harder to find
Ask anyone to name Britain’s biggest comedy podcasts and you’ll get the…
'Yes, this probably is the end of Ghosts'
Laurence Rickard wrote Ghosts with Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas,…
What was the first name of Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?
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'Trying to be serious is inevitably always so funny'
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Reviews
Thao Cao: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Funnier
Thao Cao, a dry and deadpan Australian comic, certainly…
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
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The replacement for the defunct Leicester Comedy Festival is to maintain an annual…
CK Nath wins best show at Women In Comedy festival
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Operation Mincemeat heads to Australia
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New images from Josh Pugh's Stepping Up
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Katherine Ryan: I got a facelift eight weeks after giving birth
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When Rob Beckett's crowd heckled his five-year-old daughter
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Videos
George Fouracres and guest host James Norton play pugs being introduced to each other for the first time in this sketch from yesterday’s Saturday Night Live UK.
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Every pug deserves a best friend
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