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Ben Elton says a new installment is 'cosmically unlikely'
28/10/2025 … Ben Elton has scoffed at the idea of a Swinging Sixties revival of Blackadder and says a fifth series is ‘cosmically unlikely’.
© Callum Parke/PA Images/Alamy Academic sued over his portrayal in comic's Richard III filn
27/10/2025 … Steve Coogan and the producers of his film The Lost King have agreed to pay an academic ‘substantial damages’ for defamation about how he was portrayed…
Wodehouse prize for comic fiction shortlist revealed
27/10/2025 … Richard Ayoade, Sandi Toskvig and Outnumbered co-writer Guy Jenkin are among the authors nominated for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for…
Big stars head to Leeds landmark
27/10/2025 … The Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival is to return to the Leeds landmark next summer, it has been announced.
Grassroots events back for a second edition in January
27/10/2025 … The Bristol Comedy Festival will return for its second edition in January, organisers have announced.
The best of the week's live comedy
26/10/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,429 events Chortle currently has listed.
© UKTV The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
26/10/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
24/10/2025 … The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory has been taken into custody by US federal agents.
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