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© PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Assets written down from £13m to £3m
29/05/2026 … The value of assets held by Russell Brand's UK company has plummeted as the comedian prepares to wind it down.
© Vandamm Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Marx Brother narrates Peter And The Wolf
29/05/2026 … He was, famously, the Marx Brother who never spoke.
© Gilded Balloon 29/05/2026 … Edinburgh’s Gilded Balloon has launched a fund to help comedians who struggle to afford the cost of performing at the Fringe, with the first donation coming…
© BBC To make walking tours of London
29/05/2026 … Stephen Fry has recorded two walking tours of London put together by the QI researchers.
29/05/2026 … A new episode of Rosie Jones’s Disability Comedy Extravaganza has been released by UKTV.
© BBC Sarnies set in a Newcastle sandwich shop
28/05/2026 … Smoggie Queens star Elijah Young is making a BBC comedy short set in a sandwich shop on Newcastle's Bigg Market.
Strong demand for outdoor comedy festival
28/05/2026 … A Glasgow outdoor comedy festival is to stage a second event this summer following strong demand for the first.
© Netflix 28/05/2026 … Ted Danson and Elizabeth Banks are to star as father and daughter in a new Apple TV comedy.
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