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Tom Davis, Sian Clifford, Joe Wilkinson, Bill Bailey and more
30/10/2025 … A raft of top comedy stars has joined the cast of the BBC’s forthcoming sitcom The Reluctant Vampire – based on the books by Eric Morecambe.
Private Shakespearean performance for pupils
30/10/2025 … Eddie Izzard is to give primary school pupils a private Shakespearean performance.
New look for an early home of alternative comedy
30/10/2025 … Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Mel Giedroyc are among the household names helping to relaunch a tiny London pub theatre this winter.
F-bombs in Radio 4's 6.30pm comedy
30/10/2025 … More than 100 listeners have complained to the BBC about the swearing in Call Jonathan Pie.
© Bill & Ben Productions Nude organist tribute to be unveiled in Colwyn Bay in April
30/10/2025 … The statue of Terry Jones as the nude organist from Monty Python’s Flying Circus is to be unveiled on April 25, it has been announced.
© Channel 4 Two special episodes instead of one
30/10/2025 … Taskmaster’s New Year Treat is to run over two episodes for the first time ever.
© Karen Laårk Boshoff/Pexels 30/10/2025 … Comedy channel U&Gold has opened entries for its annual Christmas cracker joke competition – as it returns for its 13th year.
© Gregor Fischer I re:publica/CC BY-SA 2.0 Writer's anti-trans ally gives evidence in his harassment case
29/10/2025 … The teenage trans activist who accuses Graham Linehan of harassing her had been ‘aggressively’ photographing attendees at a conference, a court heard.
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