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© Trevor Leighton 'Personal family news' means she has to stay close to home
23/09/2026 … Laura Smyth has pulled her stand-up tour two days before it was due to start, citing ‘recent personal family news’.
© BBC/Ricochet/Neil Kent For a BBC programme... from the religion department
23/09/2026 … Guz Khan is taking up mixed martial arts for a new BBC documentary.
Flat Earth Nation features two male comedians chatting
23/09/2026 … Comedians Dom McGovern and Dan Wye are launching a podcast, Flat Earth Nation, in which the pair ‘pick apart whatever nonsense has caught their attention that…
© Remarkable Entertainment ...before Michael Sheen takes over
23/09/2026 … Comedians Miles Jupp, Cariad Lloyd, Lucy Porter and Kiell Smith-Bynoe will be the last to face Richard Osman on House Of Games.
© BBC/The Comedy Unit Rambling is set in the Scottish landscape
23/09/2026 … Mark Bonnar and Ashley Jensen are to star in a new one-off BBC comedy.
© Matt Crockett With guests recalling the moment they said, 'Eff it'
22/09/2026 … Helen Lederer is launching a new podcast.
© Leo Cackett Grace Campbell, Munya Chawawa and Michelle de Swarte are subjects in series 13
22/09/2026 … Comedians Grace Campbell, Munya Chawawa and Michelle de Swarte, pictured, will be among the subjects of the next series of Portrait Artist Of The Year, it has…
© NotFromUtrecht/CC BY-SA 3.0 21/09/2026 … There is no money in the pot for those owed money by the collapse of Leicester Comedy Festival, an official statement for the liquidators has revealed.
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