Sean Lock to headline Camp Bestival
Dave Johns and Andrew Maxwell also appearing
25/01/2018 … Camp Bestival has announced its comedy headliners led by Sean Lock.
Thu 25 January 2018
Stewart Lee bottled on stage
...in a controversial new comic book
25/01/2018 … Stewart Lee has been bottled on stage… but thankfully, only in a comic book.
High drama!
Stand comedy club director in dramatic mountain rescue
25/01/2018 … The director of The Stand comedy clubs, Kenny O’Brien, has been involved in a dramatic helicopter rescue in the Cairngorms.
Edinburgh Fringe loses funding
Creative Scotland pulls hundreds of thousands of pounds
25/01/2018 … The body that oversees the Edinburgh Fringe has been stripped of hundreds of thousands of pounds of funding.
Call me Dr Reg...
Hunter picks up an honorary degree from Lincoln
25/01/2018 … Reginald D Hunter has been made an honorary doctor by the University of Lincoln.
Bringing a Morecambe and Wise film back to life
The painstaking way a lost episode is being recovered
25/01/2018 … BBC archivists have described the painstaking process of restoring a previously lost 50-year-old episode of Morecambe and Wise.
© BBC/Colin Hutton Kenneth Branagh and Lily Cole join Upstart Crow
As do Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer
25/01/2018 … Kenneth Branagh, Lily Cole and Young Ones stars Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer are to appear in the next series of Upstart Crow.
Radio 1 orders a raft of new comedy
25/01/2018 … Radio 1 is to put comedy back on the station after more than a decade – but in a 3am slot.