© Channel 4 C4 orders 'The Sweeney in Victorian England'
Matt Berry to star in period cop comedy Year Of The Rabbit
07/06/2018 … Matt Berry is making a Victorian crime comedy entitled Year Of The Rabbit for Channel 4.
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Thu 07 June 2018
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Seann Walsh announces autumn tour
After This One, I’m Going Home hits the road after Edinburgh Fringe
07/06/2018 … Seann Walsh has announced a 51-date autumn tour.
Stand-ups unite on new musical comedy
Based on an Aristophanes classic
07/06/2018 … Jenny Eclair, Shappi Khorsandi and Natalie Haynes are to write a new musical comedy together.
Hammerhead nails it
Brighton Fringe Award for Joseph Morpurgo
07/06/2018 … Joseph Morpurgo has won the prize for the best comedy show at the Brighton Fringe.
Harry Hill announces his first tour in five years
07/06/2018 … Harry Hill has announced his first tour in five years – with a show aimed squarely at children.
© Andy Hollingworth Dylan Moran attacks 'panel show wankers'
'That's the opposite of comedy'
07/06/2018 … Dylan Moran has slammed panel shows – and Radio 4’s humorous output – as being ‘the opposite of comedy’.
A word to the WIs
Jo Brand to present radio quiz for Women's Institutes
07/06/2018 … Jo Brand is to host a one-off BBC quiz show that pits two Women’s Institutes against each other.
Wed 06 June 2018
It's the great outdoors...
Manchester gets its first all-day open-air comedy festival
06/06/2018 … Manchester is to get what’s believed to be the city’s first all-day outdoor comedy festival.