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15/11/2018 … BBC Scotland has unveiled a new season of comedy pilots called Funny Firsts, kicking off from next week.
Diversity row engulfs Harry Hill's charity gig
15/11/2018 … Organisers of a massive comedy gig have apologised after finding themselves at the heart of diversity storm because they advertised an all-white line-up.
For an episode of the researchers' No Such Thing As A Fish podcast
15/11/2018 … Three years after leaving QI, Stephen Fry has headed back into the show’s nerve centre.
© BBC Phoebe Waller-Bridge to perform a five-week run off Broadway
15/11/2018 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to take her original version of Fleabag to the New York stage.
© BBC 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.
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.
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 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.
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