Dark new comedy from Detectorist star Toby Jones
Playing a Bognor Regis coach driver
30/04/2018 … Detectorists star Toby Jones is to star as a Bognor Regis coach driver in a new dark comedy he has created for BBC Two.
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Mon 30 April 2018
Katherine Parkinson to star in new legal comedy
Defending The Guilty based on real barrister's book
30/04/2018 … Katherine Parkinson is to play a cynical lawyer in a new BBC Two comedy.
Alt-right spread vile libel about Michelle Wolf
...no she does NOT have a conviction for bestiality
30/04/2018 … American right-wingers have been spreading vile lies that Michelle Wolf has a conviction for bestiality.
Russell Brand pulls all his tour dates
Comic at his mother's bedside as she recovers from car crash
30/04/2018 … Russell Brand has pulled the rest of his tour to be withr his 71-year-old mother Barbara, after she was hurt in a serious car accident.
'Definitive' Charlie Chaplin biopic in the works
Family opens up archive to filmmakers
30/04/2018 … Previously unscreened Charlie Chaplin outtakes are to be included in a ‘definitive’ new movie biography of the comedy icon.
© BBC/Tiger Aspect Productions/Matt Squires BBC picks up bigamy comedy
The Other One goes to series after successful pilot
30/04/2018 … BBC Two has commissioned Holly Walsh's unconventional family sitcom The Other One for a series, Chortle can reveal.
Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona reunited
Their first new show together in 14 years
30/04/2018 … Alistair McGowan is to be reunited with Ronni Ancona for the first time since their The Big Impression show ended on BBC One 14 years ago.
Sun 29 April 2018
Brighton your day
The best of the week's live comedy
29/04/2018 … The best of the week's live comedy.