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17/08/2024 … Gilbert Gottfried’s first and last comedy album is to be posthumously released this autumn.
The continuing adventures of Jack and Victor
17/08/2024 … Still Game’s Jack and Victor are coming back as comic book characters.
...as Israeli couple say they felt the audience wanted to kill them
17/08/2024 … Police have said no crime took place at a Reginald D Hunter Edinburgh Fringe show after receiving complaints that his run-in with Israeli hecklers amounted…
Comic Connor Burns abandons show a few minutes in
17/08/2024 … Connor Burns had to abandon his Edinburgh Fringe show last night when a fire broke out in the venue.
They only see the script when they arrive on stage
17/08/2024 … Richard Gadd, Nick Mohammed, John Bishop and Sally Phillips are among the comics taking part in an experimental West End play.
16/08/2024 … The longlists have been announced for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards – and they are VERY long.
Comedians' show pulled in town with a large Jewish population
16/08/2024 … A venue has cancelled a Reginald D Hunter show following the antisemitism storm that has blown up at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Venue: We pulled the plug over poor ticket sales
16/08/2024 … Roy Chubby Brown has lashed out at a ‘woke, cancel culture, dictatorship’ after a venue cancelled a forthcoming gig.
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