Sacha Baron Cohen to play real-life spy
12/04/2018 … Sacha Baron Cohen is to star in a new Netflix drama called The Spy.
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US comedy matriarch Mitzi Shore dies at 87
Entrepreneur started the LA Comedy Store
11/04/2018 … Mitzi Shore, the founder of the Los Angeles Comedy Store who had a huge influence on a generation of comedians, has died at the age of 87.
When is Taskmaster back on Dave?
Broadcaster announces series 6 air date
11/04/2018 … Dave has confirmed that the next series of Taskmaster will return on Wednesday May 2 at 9pm The contestants in the sixth series are Alice Levine,…
Rob Brydon joins Bruce Springsteen-inspired film
Sally Phillips also stars in Blinded By The Light
11/04/2018 … Rob Brydon and Sally Phillips have joined the cast of a new comedy film about a British Muslim boy growing up in 1980s Luton with a love of Bruce Springsteen.
Mel Giedroyc writes her first novel
The Best Things is out next summer
11/04/2018 … Mel Giedroyc is to write her first novel.
Victoria Wood to get an authorised biography
...but fans will have to wait until 2020
11/04/2018 … Victoria Wood is to be the subject of a major new official biography.
© Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 3.0 Bruce Willis gets roasted
Die Hard star in next Comedy Central special
11/04/2018 … Bruce Willis is to be the next target of a Comedy Central roast.