Comics take the Saudi coin
Whitehall, Carr, Djalili and Jimeoin head to Riyadh Comedy Festival
04/09/2025 … Jimmy Carr, Omid Djalili, Jack Whitehall and Jimeoin are to play the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival next month.
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Thu 04 September 2025
© Alex Lake Romesh Ranganathan: Racists have threatened my family
As comic vows he'll keep mocking asylum hotel protesters
04/09/2025 … Romesh Ranganathan has called out racists who've threatened his family after he made jokes about asylum seeker hotel protesters.
Wed 03 September 2025
© Rob Parfitt / Channel 4 Mitchell & Webb break C4's C-bomb record
Sketch show becomes the broadcaster's sweariest programme
03/09/2025 … David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s new sketch show contains more C-bombs than any other Channel 4 show, The broadcaster’s chief content officer, Ian…
Chaff comedy magazine seeks contributors
03/09/2025 … Alternative comedy magazine Chaff is inviting submissions of its fourth edition.
© Met Police Met police chief: 'We should not be policing toxic culture wars'
Sir Mark Rowley speaks out over Graham Linehan arrest
03/09/2025 … Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has said his officers had no choice but to arrest Graham Linehan over his anti-trans tweets.
The Paper gets a second edition
The Office spin-off renewed for season 2 before the first drops
03/09/2025 … The Paper – the new mockumentary spin-off from The Office – has been renewed for a second series the day before its first drops in the US.
Improv rapper Chris Turner wows America's Got Talent
British comic now in the semi-finals
03/09/2025 … British improv rapper Chris Turner has made the semi-finals of America’s Got Talent.
Filming starts on Big Mood series 2
03/09/2025 … My Family star Robert Lindsay and Marina Bye from the Siblings double act have joined the cast of Channel 4’s hit comedy Big Mood.