Tue 07 November 2017
© BBC How Mackenzie Crook struck gold
A real coup for the Detectorist
07/11/2017 … It is what every treasure-hunter dreams of – and what Mackenzie Crook depicted so compellingly in Detectorists – finding buried gold.
Memories of the UK comedy circuit
Papa CJ, now based in India, recalls his formative years
07/11/2017 … I started doing comedy in October 2004 in London.
Beat The Frog World Series Final 2017
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Frog and Bucket, Manchester
07/11/2017 … Beat the Frog? Well, no one delivered a knockout blow at the final of this annual competition, with a line-up high on competence but without any newcomer to really…
Lenny Henry: 'Comedy's rediscovered its punk spirit'
'We've been waiting for a bit of anarchy'
07/11/2017 … Comedians have rediscovered a punk spirit amid today’s political turmoil, Sir Lenny Henry says.
How Brendon O'Carroll responded to offshore tax probe
07/11/2017 … Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll didn’t mince his words when the BBC’s Panorama programme started investigating the dubious tax…
What a birthday present!
Kathryn Mather wins Beat The Frog World series
07/11/2017 … Former children's entertainer Kathryn Mather has won the annual new talent hunt run by Manchester’s Frog and Bucket comedy club.
More 'Bad Moves' for ITV
07/11/2017 … ITV has ordered a second series of Jack Dee’s comedy Bad Move.