© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Assets written down from £13m to £3m
29/05/2026 … The value of assets held by Russell Brand's UK company has plummeted as the comedian prepares to wind it down.
© Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Marx Brother narrates Peter And The Wolf
29/05/2026 … He was, famously, the Marx Brother who never spoke.
© Gilded Balloon 29/05/2026 … Edinburgh’s Gilded Balloon has launched a fund to help comedians who struggle to afford the cost of performing at the Fringe, with the first donation coming…
© BBC To make walking tours of London
29/05/2026 … Stephen Fry has recorded two walking tours of London put together by the QI researchers.
29/05/2026 … In an emotional scene, a son (Jeremy Culhane) visits his estranged father (James Austin Johnson) in hospital.
29/05/2026 … A new episode of Rosie Jones’s Disability Comedy Extravaganza has been released by UKTV.
Review of Sam Campbell's new Channel 4 comedy
28/05/2026 … It’s one thing to be the disruptively quirky figure on a robust format like Taskmaster or Last One Laughing, but for such a comedian to head their own show…
© BBC Sarnies set in a Newcastle sandwich shop
28/05/2026 … Smoggie Queens star Elijah Young is making a BBC comedy short set in a sandwich shop on Newcastle's Bigg Market.
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