Miranda Hart 'set to appear in Annie'
03/02/2017 … Miranda Hart is set to make her West End debut in the musical Annie.
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Fri 03 February 2017
11 arrested at protests over offensive comedian
Violence flares over Gavin McInnes university speech
03/02/2017 … Eleven people have been arrested at heated protests against a right-wing comedian.
'His act was dark but his soul was gentle'
Former circuit comedian Stuart Hudson dies
03/02/2017 … Stuart Hudson, a familiar face on the comedy circuit in the late part of the 2000s, has died of sepsis.
Thu 02 February 2017
The next Fleabag?
BBC Three buys Irish comedy Can’t Cope, Won’t Cop
02/02/2017 … BBC Three has bought the rights to new Irish comedy-drama series Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope.
© BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Steffan Hill Ardal O'Hanlon to take the lead in Death In Paradise
02/02/2017 … Ardal O’Hanlon is to take over as the star of BBC One’s Death In Paradise.
New book and radio show for Rob Newman
02/02/2017 … Radio 4 has commissioned Robert Newman to make a comedy series about the brain – to tie in with a book he’s also writing on the subject.
It begins...
First Edinburgh Fringe tickets go on sale
02/02/2017 … The first handful of comedy shows have gone on sale for this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Absolutely Radio Show to return
02/02/2017 … Radio 4 has commissioned a second series of The Absolutely Radio Show.