Playing a drag queen she meets in a gay bar
17/05/2018 … Richard Gadd is to appear as a drag queen in the TV film about the night Kenny Everett and Freddie Mercury smuggled Princess Diana into a gay cabaret bar dressed…
Stand-up debut on James Corden show
17/05/2018 … James Acaster appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night.
© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 US comedy based on 1D star's early life
17/05/2018 … Harry Styles’ life is to be turned into a sitcom.
New Fringe shows announced today
17/05/2018 … The last major tranche of Edinburgh Fringe shows are going on sale today – and here are some of the highlights of the new batch: Max & Ivan –…
© Jill Furmanovsky Two specials for release this year
16/05/2018 … Scottish comic Daniel Sloss is to release two stand-up specials on Netflix.
And her new show is billed as 'hilarious'. What gives?
16/05/2018 … She solemnly vowed to quit comedy after her last show, saying it was an unhealthy occupation that would suspend her ‘in a permanent state of adolescence’.
16/05/2018 … TV channel Dave has a good record of commissioning comedians to do what they do best, whether its Dave Gorman with his PowerPoint, Matt Forde with his politics or…
© Luigi Novi/CC BY-SA 3.0 Wodehouse prize for comedy books dropped after failing to raise a laugh
16/05/2018 … An annual award for comic novels has been dropped this year – after judges said none of this year's entries were funny enough.
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