© Matthew Highton Ticket sales soar at Wells Comedy Festival
PLUS: Gallery of images from the weekend
31/05/2018 … The fourth Wells Comedy Festival has reported a near 40 per cent rise in ticket sales.
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Robert White makes Britain's Got Talent final
30/05/2018 … Robert White has become the second comedian to make the finals of Britain's Got Talent this year.
© ABC Roseanne Barr turns on her co-stars
...as if costing them their jobs wasn't enough
30/05/2018 … First her racist tweet cost her sitcom’s cast and crew their jobs, now Roseanne Barr is lashing out at her newly-redundant co-stars.
Who's on Chortle's Fast Fringe 2018?
Line-up for London Underbelly announced
30/05/2018 … The full line-up for this year’s Fast Fringe in London can now be revealed.
© BBC Goodies reunited!
On-stage interview for DVD box set
30/05/2018 … The Goodies are reuniting for the first time in more than a decade.
Elliot Steel lands drama writing deal
Comic signs to Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s company
30/05/2018 … Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company has signed Elliot Steel as part of a raft of new talents it hopes will create original new dramas.
Soho Theatre launches video-on-demand service
Ten stand-up specials available to rent
30/05/2018 … Soho Theatre has launched a video-on-demand service offering stand-up specials from some of the rising star comedians who have played there.
John Bishop's next guests revealed...
Series 4 of In Conversation With starts in July
30/05/2018 … Katherine Ryan, Ruth Jones and Paddy McGuinness are to be the guests on the next series of John Bishop: In Conversation With… The long-form interview…