© Matthew Highton Ticket sales soar at Wells Comedy Festival
PLUS: Gallery of images from the weekend
31/05/2018 … The fourth Wells Comedy Festival has reported a near 40 per cent rise in ticket sales.
Thu 31 May 2018
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Warning: May contain jokes
Edinburgh Fringe get sniffy at comedian's blurb
31/05/2018 … Stand-up Nick Doody has branded Edinburgh Fringe officials as ‘spoilsports’ after blocking him from including a joke in his blurb in the festival programme.
Narstie by nature
Grime star forcefully rejects Robert White's advances
31/05/2018 … When Robert White tried to celebrate his Britain's Got Talent semi-final win last night, it didn’t quite end up as planned.
Wed 30 May 2018
Robert White makes Britain's Got Talent final
30/05/2018 … Robert White has become the second comedian to make the finals of Britain's Got Talent this year.
© ABC Roseanne Barr turns on her co-stars
...as if costing them their jobs wasn't enough
30/05/2018 … First her racist tweet cost her sitcom’s cast and crew their jobs, now Roseanne Barr is lashing out at her newly-redundant co-stars.
Who's on Chortle's Fast Fringe 2018?
Line-up for London Underbelly announced
30/05/2018 … The full line-up for this year’s Fast Fringe in London can now be revealed.
It's Lost Balance Guy
BGT's Lee Ridley takes a tumble
30/05/2018 … Lost Voice Guy has joked that he became Lost Balance Guy after taking a nasty fall after his triumph at the Britain's Got Talent semi-final.
Zach Galifianakis: Definitely not dead
...despite what some people may have heard
30/05/2018 … Zach Galifianakis has now got to the stage where he's recognised in the street.