When Shortlist tried to censor Stewart Lee
Magazine didn't want to upset advertisers... or Jack Whitehall
29/07/2016 … Lifestyle magazine Shortlist attempted to censor Stewart Lee for fear he might upset advertisers – or Jack Whitehall.
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Fri 29 July 2016
Blasphemy!
Monty Don blasts The Good Life
29/07/2016 … It is usually considered one of the jewels in the crown of British sitcom.
© Slapstick/Adam Johnson Was Dara O Briain a saint in a previous life?
29/07/2016 … • 'When I was doing Spitting Image, Kate Robbins threw a party and Des O'Connor was in the corner playing a white grand piano, wearing a white suit and I thought,…
Thu 28 July 2016
© C4 Scrotal Recall is no more...
As Netflix renames it Lovesick
28/07/2016 … Comedy series Scrotal Recall is to get a new name.
R4 orders Moore police comedy
Third series for It's A Fair Cop
28/07/2016 … Radio 4 has commissioned a third series of It’s A Fair Cop from policeman-turned comedian Alfie Moore.
Guests announced for Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
28/07/2016 … The guests have been named for Dara O Briain’s new videogame show, Go 8 Bit.
John Cleese to the rescue!
Comic icon to perform at festival fundraiser
28/07/2016 … John Cleese is to give his only British stage performance of the year year to help Bristol’s Slapstick Festival of vintage comedy.
Free Fringe flyer fight
Row as founder lays down the law on leaftleters
28/07/2016 … Free Fringe overlord Peter Buckley Hill is dictating which flyerers comedians at his Edinburgh venues can use.