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Event to mark 25 years since Bill Hicks' death

14/02/2019 … Bill Hick’s life is to marked at an event in London to mark 25 years since his death.

Graham Norton and Alan Carr to judge RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

14/02/2019 … Graham Norton and Alan Carr are to become judges on the UK version of RuPaul’s Drag Race, being made for BBC Three.

Comedies in the running for Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2019

Including Car Share, Derry Girls, Inside No 9 and Taskmaster

14/02/2019 … Car Share, Derry Girls, Inside No 9 and Lorna Martin and Sharon Horgan’s W series Women On The Verge are in the running for best comedy at the Broadcasting…

Which comics are playing the 2019 Standon Calling festival?

Line-up announced

14/02/2019 … Russell Kane and Angela Barnes are to headline the comedy line-up at the Standon Calling festival in Hertfordshire.

Fifth series for The Cold Swedish Winter

Radio 4 commissions another four episodes

14/02/2019 … Radio 4 comedy The Cold Swedish Winter is to return for a fifth series.

Bill Cosby: I'm like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela

Sex offender thinks he's a political prisoner

14/02/2019 … Convicted sex offender Bill Cosby has claimed he’s a political prisoner and likened himself to Martin Luther King Jr, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.