Queen honours Melbourne Comedy Fest chief
Susan Provan made an Officer of the Order Of Australia
12/06/2018 … Melbourne comedy festival boss Susan Provan has said she is ‘proud’ that the artform has been recognised after being honoured by the Queen.
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Tue 12 June 2018
Dani Dyer to appear in a horror film about a stand-up
...alongside Clark Gable's grandson as a heckler
12/06/2018 … Love Island’s Dani Dyer is to appear in a new horror film about a stand-up comedian stalked by a fiendish heckler.
Channel 4 picks up Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
Six episodes of his consumer affairs show ordered
12/06/2018 … Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back after a successful pilot of the comedy consumer affairs show.
Deborah Frances-White pens Guilty Feminist book
With contributions from fellow comedians
12/06/2018 … Deborah Frances-White has written a book based on her podcast The Guilty Feminist.
Royal Mail issues Dad's Army stamps
To mark 50 years of the sitcom
12/06/2018 … The cast of Dad’s Army are to be immortalised in a new set of stamps.
Mon 11 June 2018
Tony Hancock scripts get London premiere
...just 66 years after they were written
11/06/2018 … Two long-lost Tony Hancock radio scripts are to get their first ever London airing later this year.
Comics go to Cornbury
Festival announces its line-up
11/06/2018 … The Cornbury Festival in the Cotswolds has announced its comedy line-up.
Daisy May Cooper joins David Copperfield movie
Armando Iannucci adds Paul Whitehouse to the cast, too
11/06/2018 … This Country star Daisy May Cooper and Paul Whitehouse have joined the cast of Armando Iannucci's The Personal History Of David Copperfield.