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© Channel 4 The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
18/05/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Monday May 19 CONVERSATIONS FROM A LONG MARRIAGE: Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return…
Chelsea Handler, Patton Oswalt, Josh Johnson and the rest of the week's live comedy picks
18/05/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© ITV Jack Davenport plays a butler who takes over a pub
18/05/2025 … Jack Davenport is to star in a comedy movie about an emotionally stunted butler who is given broken-down inn by the lord he worked for.
New competitive sand sculpure series for the BBC
17/05/2025 … Iain Stirling has started filming Race Against The Tide, the sand sculpture competition he is hosting for BBC Two.
But the Bachelor Boy vetoed the idea
17/05/2025 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams wrote a musical based on Cliff Richard’s songs – only for the pop star to veto the project.
16/05/2025 … Organisers of Edinburgh’s PBH Free Fringe are launching a three-day mini-festival in London.
Secret wedding to his partner of 24 years, agent Cath Mason
16/05/2025 … Frank Skinner has secretly married his long-term girlfriend.
© Channel 4 Based on writer Delia-René Donaldson’s real experiences
15/05/2025 … Channel 4 has ordered a new sitcom based on writer Delia-René-Donaldson’s real experiences working in pastoral care at an inner-city London academy.
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