Jim Jefferies gets a late-night topical show
New deal with America's Comedy Central
03/03/2017 … Jim Jefferies is to host a new late-night topical show for Comedy Central in the States.
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Now Miranda becomes a children's author
03/03/2017 … Miranda Hart is to become a children’s author.
Not 'hirarious', guys
Newspaper pulls 'racist' guide to comedy festival
03/03/2017 … The media partner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been forced to withdraw an article about comedians, after it was widely condemned as racist.
© BBC/Robert Pereira-Hind Celtic comedies hailed
03/03/2017 … Still Game, Patrick Kielty and stand-up Bennett Arron have all been shortlisted for Celtic Media Awards.
Release date for two Dave Chappelle specials
...as Netflix plans a new stand-up offering every week
03/03/2017 … Netflix has announced that it will release its first two Dave Chappelle specials later this month – and confirmed plans to put out a new stand-up show a week for…
© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Arise, Sir Ken
03/03/2017 … Ken Dodd was knighted by Prince William yesterday and said – of course - that he was ‘highly tickled’ by the honour.
'We've all got issues. It's all about mummy innit?'
03/03/2017 … • 'Being naked does not embarrass me.
© C4 Peter Kay: I wrote Phoenix Nights for Bernard Manning
Controversial comic should have been Brian Potter
03/03/2017 … Peter Kay has revealed that he wrote the part of club-owner Brian Potter in Phoenix Nights for Bernard Manning.