© Neale Haynes/Contour by Getty Images 5 to air a celebration of Alan Carr
15/10/2026 … Channel 5 is to air a documentary celebrating Alan Carr’s life and career in comedy.
Thu 15 October 2026
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The AI 'comedians' stealing jokes wholesale
'It feels incredibly violating'
15/10/2026 … Social media parasites are shamelessly stealing comedians' material and remaking it with AI-generated avatars.
Why great comedy podcasts are getting harder to find
Different platforms are showing you different charts, explains Zaq Qureshi
15/10/2026 … Ask anyone to name Britain’s biggest comedy podcasts and you’ll get the same handful of answers.
Play That Goes Wrong becomes one of the West End's longest-running shows
15/10/2026 … The Play That Goes Wrong has entered the list of the longest-running West End shows, in 20th place.
Friends returns to Channel 4
Sitcom can be streamed for free from January
15/10/2026 … Friends is to return to Channel 4 from January.
Wed 14 October 2026
'Yes, this probably is the end of Ghosts'
Laurence Rickard on the sitcom's film adaptation, writing on Amandaland and more...
14/10/2026 … Laurence Rickard wrote Ghosts with Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick and Ben Willbond, the team that first began working together on…
Ivo Graham: Orange Crush
Review of the comic's latest tour
14/10/2026 … Ivo Graham’s certainly gone all-in on the orange theme, from wearing a jumpsuit and beanie of that hue to handing out tangerine treats such as Wotsits and…
Six women, six allegations
Court hears details of the charges against Russell Brand
14/10/2026 … Russell Brand is a ‘sexual predator’ with an ‘insatiable desire’, prosecutors have alleged during the first day of his trial.