© Stuart Hogben Big names join Galway festival
21/08/2017 … Dara O Briain, Kevin Bridges and Tommy Tiernan have joined the line-up for Galway’s annual comedy festival.
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Awards rain down on the Kagools
Comedy duo take Amused Moose title
20/08/2017 … The Kagools have won the Amused Moose Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe The double act comprises Claire Ford and Nicola Wilkinson, who performed their first…
Amy Poehler creates new animated comedy
20/08/2017 … Amy Poehler is joining forces with Simpsons veterans Mike Scully and Julie Thacker Scully to create a new animated comedy.
© Andy Hollingworth New comedy festival in the Wyldes of Cornwall
20/08/2017 … The week ahead in live comedy.
© BBC / Guy Levy Ben Elton on the studio sitcom
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
20/08/2017 … The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.
Voting opens for Comedians' Choice 2017
For best shows and performers at the Fringe
20/08/2017 … Comedians working at the Edinburgh Fringe have been invited to vote for their favourite colleagues and shows at the festival.
© Elvert Barnes Protest Photography/CC BY-SA 2.0 Dick Gregory dies at 84
Comedian and activist broke barriers
20/08/2017 … Pioneering comedian and activist Dick Gregory has died aged 84.