© BBC/Boundless/Johann Perry I refused to refer to a 'flood of immigrants'
23/03/2015 … Ed Byrne and Dara O Briain first bonded backstage in Dublin, 'bitching about other Irish comedians'.
Mon 23 March 2015
© BBC/Boundless/Johann Perry 
Chris Ramsey, time traveller
Comic signs up for C4 historical reality show
23/03/2015 … Chris Ramsey is to go back in time for a new reality TV show in which he’ll be forced to live without any modern trappings.
Mel Brooks Live In London
Gig review by Darren Richman at the Prince Of Wales Theatre
23/03/2015 … Mel Brooks is the history of American Jewish humour in human form – and in his eagerly awaited London stage debut at the ripe old age of 88, he entertained…
© BBC Frankie Boyle back on the Beeb
Election special... but on iPlayer only
23/03/2015 … Frankie Boyle is to host a new BBC comedy show about the election.
Sun 22 March 2015
The Friday Night Experience
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Invisible Dot, London
22/03/2015 … The Friday Night Experience, a new format being trialled by new-wave London producers The Invisible Dot, is an engagingly slapdash mix of gameshow, sketch performance…
© Allan Warren/Creative Commons When Frankie Howerd dropped acid
Highlights of the comedy week ahead...
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Berryed treasures
Matt Berry to make a new series for iPlayer
22/03/2015 … Toast of London star Matt Berry is to make a new comedy series for the BBC iPlayer.