Jongleurs clubs all close
Venue chain set to go into administration
17/10/2017 … Every Jongleurs comedy club night has been cancelled as the company that runs it has suspended operations.
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Tue 17 October 2017
Parkinson's benefit goes great shakes
17/10/2017 … A comedy benefit show raised more than £9,500 for Parkinson’s UK last night.
John Oliver backs new TV series from Wyatt Cenac
17/10/2017 … American comedian Wyatt Cenac is to star in a topical comic documentary series executive produced by John Oliver.
Lizzie Roper joins Grumpy Old Women
17/10/2017 … Comedian Lizzie Roper has joined the Grumpy Old Women team as they announce a new tour.
Comedy agent turns novelist
Hannah Begbie inspired by raising a son with cystic fibros
17/10/2017 … Former comedy agent Hannah Begbie has become a novelist, and has sold her first book to HarperFiction.
Trailer Park Boys star John Dunsworth dies
17/10/2017 … Trailer Park Boys star John Dunsworth has died at the age of 71 following a 'brief and unexpected illness’.
Mon 16 October 2017
© BBC/Colin Hutton The Upstart Crow flies again
16/10/2017 … The BBC has ordered a third series of Ben Elton’s Shakespeare comedy Upstart Crow.
How Sean Hughes envisaged his own funeral
16/10/2017 … Sean Hughes – whose death at the age of 51 has been confirmed today – once wrote a poem about how he would like to be laid to rest.