'You can't have a sitcom in space. There's no settee.'
13/05/2016 … • 'In comedy everybody feels like an outsider, that's why they've come into it.
Fri 13 May 2016
James Acaster hits Germany
Exclusive clip as new raft of online shows announced
13/05/2016 … James Acaster is to launch a follow-up to his web series Sweet Home Ketteringa next week, as producers Turtle Canyon Comedy unveil a new slate of online shorts.
Michael Palin to star in Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote movie
...and he's in Armando Iannucci's new satire
13/05/2016 … Michael Palin is set to star as Don Quixote in a new film from Monty Python colleague Terry Gilliam.
The Muppets are stuffed
Broadcaster ABC axes the reboot
13/05/2016 … The reboot of The Muppets TV show has been axed after just one season.
Joan Rivers' family settle lawsuit
'Those culpable for her death have accepted responsibility'
13/05/2016 … Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa has settled the lawsuit with the New York clinic where the comedian went into cardiac arrest.
Thu 12 May 2016
Missing Hancocks to return
BBC re-recording five more lost episodes
12/05/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of The Missing Hancocks, despite star Kevin McNally sparking rumours that it had been cancelled.
Still Game to return
Back on BBC One after nine-year absence
12/05/2016 … Still Game is to return to TV, almost nine years after its last series, and promoted to BBC One.
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Which comedians have been honoured with plaques
12/05/2016 … Tommy Cooper today becomes only the 12th comedian to be honoured with a blue plaque – although he is one of the more famous to modern minds.