Matthew Hayhurst: Retirement Show
Comedian looks back on his 126-year comedy career
22/01/2024 … Save some convoluted premise setting the events in purgatory, this is a chronological run-through of the fictional – and very unlikely-sounding –…
Mon 22 January 2024
The clone arranger
Comic Ray Bradshaw gathers a room full of lookalikes
22/01/2024 … Ray Bradshaw performed for a dozen lookalikes last night to promote his new stand-up show Doppelginger.
Lou Sanders' first Dancing On Ice routine
...though it landed her in the skate-off
22/01/2024 … Here's Lou Sanders first routine on Dancing On Ice.
Matt Forde returns to work
Comic will be back on the radio four months after revealing spinal tumour
22/01/2024 … Matt Forde is back on his feet following cancer surgery – and will be returning to his radio show in two weeks’ time.
© ITV Radio station reported that Barry Humphries was 'stable' in hospital – three days after he died
22/01/2024 … A Yorkshire radio station reported that Barry Humphries was in a ‘stable condition’ in hospital – three days after he had died.
Katherine Ryan, Sue Perkins and Dara O Briain do Desert Island Discs live
Radio 4 show comes to the London Palladium
22/01/2024 … Katherine Ryan, Sue Perkins and Dara O Briain are to take part in a stage version of Desert Island Discs.
Archie Maddocks writes a new children's TV series
Comedian adapts Alex Wheatle's Crongton novels
22/01/2024 … Comedian Archie Maddocks has written a new children’s TV series for the BBC.
Natasha Leggero strips on stage
‘If the boys can do it, why can't the girls?’
22/01/2024 … American comic Natasha Leggero stunned a comedy club audience when she stripped to the waist to perform topless.