© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 To harness the health benefits of comedy
01/10/2020 … Liverpool is to celebrate one of its most famous sons with an official Doddy Day – on the weekend of what would have been Ken Dodd’s 93rd birthday.
Coming to Amazon Prime this month
01/10/2020 … Amazon Prime has released the official trailer for the second Borat film.
...and Munya Chawawa mocks them
01/10/2020 … Comedian Munya Chawawa mocks Royal Mail’s decision to paint four of its 100,000 post boxes black to mark Black History Month in his latest video.
01/10/2020 … Radio 4 has commissioned a new stand-up series from Chris Neill following the success of his show Woof.
© BBC/Channel X So Awkward actor was Nicholas Lyndhurst's son
01/10/2020 … Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst and star of the CBBC comedy show So Awkward, has died at the age of 19.
© Ibsan73/CC BY-SA 2.0 Her production company launches new writing competition
01/10/2020 … Olivia Colman’s production company is launching a comedy script competition for writer-performers.
01/10/2020 … Daniel Sloss describes how he put together his first set for the Conan show in this new video.
© BBC Tony Robinson in talks with streaming giant
01/10/2020 … Sir Tony Robinson has been in talks with streaming giant Netflix to reboot classic 1990s kids’ comedy Maid Marian and Her Merry Men.
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