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© BBC Revelation as TV executives mull the future of sitcom
02/07/2024 … American executives wanted to axe ‘hot priest’ Andrew Scott from Fleabag, a former BBC comedy chief has revealed.
Footage from Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring in their student days
01/07/2024 … Early comedy performances from the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Michael Palin and Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are to be made available for the first time in a new…
30/06/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
30/06/2024 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Now MARK WATSON: THE INFINITE SHOW: The comic’s 2018 stand-up show about trying…
© Life, Love, and Pop-Culture/CC BY-SA 3.0 Credits include Roseanne, Veep and Arrested Development
29/06/2024 … American actor and comedian Martin Mull – whose credits include Roseanne, Veep and Arrested Development has died at the age of 1980.
Curators appeal for more memorabilia
28/06/2024 … The rich history of comedy in North East England is to be celebrated in an exhibition this summer.
© Marc Brenner ...and it's all Rishi Sunak's fault
28/06/2024 … A planned tour of Armando Iannucci’s satire of the government’s Covid response has been axed because of the general election.
© Ray Burmiston 27/06/2024 … Ricky Gervais has announced the title of his next world tour and Netflix special: Mortality.
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