© BBC Ray Galton left £2.2million
19/09/2019 … It’s a long way from the rag and bone men he wrote about… Steptoe & Son writer Ray Galton left more than £2million in his will, it has…
Thu 19 September 2019
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180! Mel Giedroyc joins darts comedy
Play being developed by top West End producer
19/09/2019 … Mel Giedroyc has joined the cast of a Fringe comedy play about darts being developed by a top West End producer, Chortle can reveal The comic and former Bake…
Wed 18 September 2019
Tina Fey is crowned best comedian of the century
18/09/2019 … Tina Fey has been named the funniest comedian of the 21st century.
© UKTV Comedians Giving Lectures
18/09/2019 … It doesn’t take a right-wing newspaper columnist pining for the past to notice that comedians have increasingly adopted the mantle of activists and educators,…
Channel 4 prepares to launch 120 comedy shorts
18/09/2019 … Channel 4 is to release 120 comedy shorts from later this autumn.
Jack Whitehall adds five more gigs
Four warm-ups and one official tour date
18/09/2019 … Jack Whitehall has added five more dates to his Stood Up tour and warm-up.
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Miles Jupp to narrate The Shitshow
Latest in the Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series
18/09/2019 … Miles Jupp is to narrate the audio version of The Shitshow – the latest book in the Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series.
New book deal for Nat Luurtsema
Two children's titles coming from next year
18/09/2019 … Former stand-up Nat Luurtsema has signed a deal to write two children’s books.