Leicester Comedy Festival announces its 2022 finalists
New acts, silver stand-ups and pun-slingers...
17/12/2021 … The Leicester Comedy Festival has announced the finalists in its competitions for next year.
Fri 17 December 2021
Big push to get sweary Boris Johnson song to Christmas No 1
17/12/2021 … Cassetteboy has made a new remix of Boris Johnson's speeches, in a bid to get comedian Kunt And The Gang to Christmas No1.
New podcast for Nigel Ng
To coincide with his Haiyaa world tour
17/12/2021 … Nigel Ng has launched a new podcast about disappointment.
© BBC Helen Lederer: I had a fling with Rik Mayall
Bottom co-star on their old relationship
17/12/2021 … Helen Lederer has revealed that she had a fling with Rik Mayall in their youth.
Thu 16 December 2021
Liz Carr joins Good Omens
Series 2 currently being shot in Scotland
16/12/2021 … Comedian and Silent Witness star Liz Carr has been cast in the second series of Good Omens.
Mark Thomas: An Extra Plate
Review of the comedian's Christmas storytelling show
16/12/2021 … If you can’t do sentiment at Christmas, when can you do it? In An Extra Plate, Mark Thomas again puts his campaigning political comedy on pause to focus…
John Cleese to complain about 'tone' of BBC interviewer
Watch the video as comic takes umbrage at line of questioning
16/12/2021 … John Cleese says he will make a formal complaint to the BBC – after a journalist challenged him in a discussion about free speech.
'This is pushing our industry to the edge'
Pleas for government help as stay-at-home advice batters live comedy
16/12/2021 … The Live Comedy Association has called for immediate government support to prop up the sector, saying stay-at-home guidance was ‘pushing our industry to the…