A tight 5: January 16

Phill Jupitus is to join Jason Manford in the British tour of The Producers. The Buzzcocks regular will play Franz, the neo-Nazi writer of Springtime For Hitler, when the tour kicks off in Bromley in March. Also announced in the cast today is former Jerry Springer: The Opera star David Bedella, who plays Roger de Bris, the flamboyant director of the musical.

DYLAN AVILA, the stand-up who sustained multiple skull fractures after being beaten with a baseball bat while hosting a show, will making his stage comeback tomorrow, performing at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. An open-spot comic has been arrested in connection with the attack.

WOODY ALLEN's classic stand-up albums are to be re-released on CD. The Stand-Up Years, contains all three albums he put out in the 1960s – recorded in Chicago in March 1964, Washington DC in April 1965 and San Francisco in August 1968. The tracks had had previously been available on a CD called Standup Comic, but the new release, out on Monday, also includes bonus material, including 25 minutes of interviews with Allen. Click here to order the CD from Amazon for £13.99 or here to download from iTunes for £24.99.

DEMAND for Michael McIntyre tickets has crashed the website of the Trinity arts centre in in Tunbridge Wells. The venue only put 140 tickets to a tour warm-up gig later this month on sale, but its servers were quickly overloaded.

NETFLIX is to release a new stand-up special from American comedian Iliza Shlesinger, the former winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing reality show. Freezing Hot will be available from January 23.

Published: 16 Jan 2015