C4 orders a sitcom about a female Muslim punk band
Lady Parts picked up following a Comedy Blap
21/08/2019 … Channel 4 is making a comedy series about an all-female Muslim punk band.
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Wed 21 August 2019
Tue 20 August 2019
© Eva Rinaldi/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comedians to star in new Amazon entertainment show
Rebel Wilson to host the company's first Australian commission
20/08/2019 … Amazon is launching its first original programming in Australia: a TV comedy competition with a £55,000 first prize.
Home again
Channel 4 renews Rufus Jones's asylum-seeker comedy
20/08/2019 … Rufus Jones's asylum seeker sitcom Home is returning for a second series, Chortle can reveal.
That vegetable joke isn't fresh!
Noel James had been using the award-winning gag long before Olaf Falafel
20/08/2019 … The Dave Joke Of The Fringe competition is facing a new controversy, after it emerged that Olaf Falafel was not the first to crack it.
© BBC/Zeppotron Comics join League Of Their Own Road Trip
Filming starts in Spain next week
20/08/2019 … Romesh Ranganathan, Alan Carr, Lee Mack and Tom Davis are to take part in the next League Of Their Own Road Trip.
Amused Moose picks its new comedy champion
Babatunde Aléshé crowned at Edinburgh Fringe
20/08/2019 … Babatunde Aléshé has won this year’s Amused Moose National New Comic award.
Mon 19 August 2019
Broccoli pun 'is offensive to Tourette's sufferers'
Charity demands apology from Fringe comic Olaf Falafel
19/08/2019 … It might seem like a harmless pun – but the line named ‘joke of the Fringe’ today has been slammed as offensive.
Sky sets air date for Sarah Kendall's Frayed
1980s-set comedy launches next month
19/08/2019 … Sky One has announced that Sarah Kendall’s new comedy Frayed is to launch on September 26.