BBC to celebrate the 'nasty women' of comedy
Tribute radio show in the works
28/11/2017 … The BBC is to air a tribute to ‘feisty female comedians’.
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© ust For Laughs/ Susan Moss Photography Which comedians are up for a Grammy award?
28/11/2017 … Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan and Kevin Hart are all up for a Grammy Award.
Julian Barratt to star in a film about a haunted dress
28/11/2017 … Julian Barratt has joined the cast of a new movie about a haunted dress.
Jack Whitehall to front World Cup series
Original commission for YouTube
28/11/2017 … Jack Whitehall is to front a YouTube series about next year’s football World Cup.
What on earth are we doing here?
Riddle of how comedians' photos came to be in a Canadian underpass
28/11/2017 … British-based comedians have been stunned to learn that their images are being used in a public art project in Canada.
Who are this year's Slapstick comedians?
28/11/2017 … Ade Edmondson, Lee Mack, Christopher Biggins and Jo Brand are among the stars set to appear at Bristol’s Slapstick comedy festival in January.
© BBC/Baby Cow A-has from the past!
Unseen Alan Partridge footage in new BBC documentary
28/11/2017 … The BBC is to mark the return of Alan Partridge with a documentary about the character’s rise featuring archive footage never previously broadcast.
Comedians animate the inanimate
Doodlebugs launches as part of BBC One's Christmas line-up
28/11/2017 … Comics including Kayvan Novak, Morgana Robinson, Spencer Jones and the Cardinal Burns duo are to give voices to everday objects in a new animated sketch show.