© BBC Liam Williams joins new BBC Three comedy
Back To Life is written by Daisy Haggard and Laura Solon
15/11/2018 … Comedian Liam Williams has joined the cast of Daisy Haggard's new BBC Three series Back To Life.
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Jimmy Carr's tour grows to 169 dates
14/11/2018 … Hard-working Jimmy Carr has added an extra 20 nights to his 2019-20 tour, Terribly Funny, bringing the total number of gigs up to a mammoth 169.
BBC comedy is 'unchallenged left-wing propaganda'
So says its political presenter Andrew Neill
14/11/2018 … BBC political presenter Andrew Neil has complained that the corporation's comedy output is too left-wing.
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0 Dominic Cooper set to star in a Sky comedy
Gym-based sitcom from two creators of People Just Do Nothing
14/11/2018 … Mamma Mia! star Dominic Cooper is to play a fitness instructor in a new gym-based comedy from two of the creators of People Just Do Nothing.
Debut tour for Ken Cheng
Best Dad Ever takes to the road as his TV profile rises
14/11/2018 … Ken Cheng, who won Dave’s Joke Of The Fringe last year, is to embark on his first British tour.
People Just Do Nothing producer joins C4
Jon Petrie becomes a commissioning editor
14/11/2018 … People Just Do Nothing producer Jon Petrie is to become a Channel 4 commissioning editor.
'Earplugs at the ready!'
Harry Hill spearheads a musical fundraiser featuring comedy's biggest names
14/11/2018 … It’s surely the starriest comedy bill of the year, featuring the likes of John Bishop, Jo Brand, Rob Brydon, Alan Carr, Jimmy Carr, Matt Lucas, Paul Whitehouse…
© University of Cambridge Spitting Image archive finds a home at Cambridge University
Thatcher's puppet now on display
14/11/2018 … Margaret Thatcher’s Spitting Image puppet now sits alongside the works of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other treasures at Cambridge University Library.