© C4 Ballot Monkeys
22/04/2015 … The two problems that topical TV comedies have is thinking up punchlines that top real-life – and not having the internet beat you to them.
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John Bishop to be BBC One's Mr Saturday Night
Primetime show to mix comics and music
21/04/2015 … John Bishop is returning to BBC One with a Saturday night primetime show.
Let's get physical!
Sky to air a series of slapstick comedies
21/04/2015 … Sky is launching a series of knockabout physical comedies featuring Vic Reeves, Kim Cattrall, Frank Skinner, Kevin Eldon and Johnny Vegas.
© BBC/Pete Dadds Katherine Ryan's Hair transplant...
Comic to take over as host of reality show
21/04/2015 … Katherine Ryan is to take over as host of the BBC’s hairdressing talent hunt Hair.
Him & Her creator pens new TV comedy
Stefan Golaszewski's Mum heads for BBC Two
21/04/2015 … BBC Two has commissioned a new comedy from Him & Her creator Stefan Golaszewski.
They shouldn't have cast Vic Reeves...
Margo Milne says disabled actors should take disabled parts
21/04/2015 … Chortle today reported that Sky Arts has commissioned four 'knockabout physical comedies' to transmit in the autumn.
Coogan signs up for apartheid-era drama
Playing a lawyer in hard-hitting movie
21/04/2015 … Steve Coogan is to star in a hard-hitting drama set in the closing days of South African apartheid.