© Bobby Koostra/Instagram Katherine Ryan welcomes her fourth child
19/10/2025 … Katherine Ryan has given birth to her fourth child, a daughter named Holland Juliette.
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Sun 19 October 2025
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British Comedy Guide launches open mic competition
Heats and final in London next month
17/10/2025 … The British Comedy Guide has announced a new stand-up contest for open mic comedians.
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Salvaged Dick Turpin episode released
Made from footage shot before second series of Noel Fielding's comedy was abandoned
17/10/2025 … Apple TV has snuck out a final episode of The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin – after a planned second series was scuppered mid-shoot…
Gregor Fisher goes on his first tour
'Evening with...' shows to look back at his career
17/10/2025 … Scottish comedy star Gregor Fisher is to go on his first tour with an ‘evening with’ show.
'You inevitably get steered towards writing about your identity'
Nick Mohammed on the media industry's limited take on diversity
17/10/2025 … Nick Mohammed has renewed his calls for greater representation of minority groups in TV and film.
White Male Stand-Up, by Alan Davies
17/10/2025 … Five years ago, Alan Davies revealed in his powerful and sometimes distressing memoir Just Ignore Him that he had been sexually abused by his father as a child.
Brenda Gilhooly writes her first novel
A comic tale of a woman's out-of-control lie
17/10/2025 … Comedian Brenda Gilhooly has written her first novel.
Sharifa Butterfly's AI wedding speech
17/10/2025 … Sharifa Butterfly got ChatGPT to write her wedding speech… and it didn’t entirely go to plan.