© BBC / Guy Levy Ben Elton on the studio sitcom
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
20/08/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.
Sun 20 August 2017
© BBC / Guy Levy 
Genuinely mesmerising, and 100 per cent real
George Rigden picks his Perfect Playlist
20/08/2017 … I've been unhealthily obsessed with comedy for as long as I can remember, both as a viewer and a performer (as a kid I was the absolute worst).
Otto & Astrid: Eurosmash! (Die Roten Punkte)
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Paul Fleckney
20/08/2017 … Looking like a CBeebies White Stripes, art rock duo Otto and Astrid have apparently gone in a more Eurovision-inspired direction for their new show, though…
Voting opens for Comedians' Choice 2017
For best shows and performers at the Fringe
20/08/2017 … Comedians working at the Edinburgh Fringe have been invited to vote for their favourite colleagues and shows at the festival.
Gareth Richards at Chortle's Fast Fringe
Singing a hymn to his own show
20/08/2017 … Comedian Gareth Richards has written a hymn to try to persuade people to come to his Edinburgh show.
Nathan Cassidy: The Man In The Arena
Edinburgh Fringe comedy review by Steve Bennett
20/08/2017 … Nothing to do with the O2, Nathan Cassidy’s title refers to Teddy Roosevelt’s classic speech in which he said: ‘It is not the critic who counts;…
© Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CC BY-SA 2.0 Dick Gregory dies at 84
Comedian and activist broke barriers
20/08/2017 … Pioneering comedian and activist Dick Gregory has died aged 84.
Sat 19 August 2017
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Festival confusion over Glee club
19/08/2017 … The comedy tents at this weekend’s V Festival have been programmed by comedy club Glee – which has caused some confusion on site.