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11/08/2024 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
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Sun 11 August 2024
Sat 10 August 2024
Friends and family to pay tribute to Ewen MacIntosh
Memorial event for Office star
10/08/2024 … Family, friends and former colleagues of The Office star Ewen MacIntosh are to raise a scotch egg to his life at a memorial event next month.
Fri 09 August 2024
Air date for John Kearns’s The Varnishing Days
...as C4 snaps up Jordan Gray's Is It A Bird?
09/08/2024 … Sky Comedy is to air John Kearns’s acclaimed stand-up show The Varnishing Days on August 31.
Thu 08 August 2024
Roy Wood Jr to host America's Have I Got News For You
Series starts on CNN next month
08/08/2024 … Former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr.
Sarah Hadland joins Strictly
Miranda's co-star says: 'Im ready for the glitz'
08/08/2024 … Miranda star Sarah Hadland has been named as the latest contestant taking part in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing.
Mawaan Rizwan joins the Rocky Horror Show
Comic to play the narrator in London run
08/08/2024 … Mawaan Rizwan is to star in the stage version of the Rocky Horror Show when it hits London’s West End next month.
Jennifer Saunders climbs onto The Magic Faraway Tree
08/08/2024 … Jennifer Saunders has been cast in the upcoming film adaptation of Enid Blyton’s children's classic, The Magic Faraway Tree.
Scottish comedy stalwart Ron Bain dies at 79
Actor and director behind several hit shows
08/08/2024 … Ron Bain, who appeared in a swathe of Scottish TV comedies in the 1980s has died aged 79.