Will Franken loses it with a heckler
26/08/2016 … • Comedian Will Mars wasn’t happy with his two-star Chortle review this Fringe, he decided he’d just award himself five stars, attribute them to made-up website…
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Thu 25 August 2016
ITV orders Harry Hill panel show
Alien Fun Capsule to air next year
25/08/2016 … ITV has commissioned a new panel show from Harry Hill, to air in 2017.
Heidi Regan wins So You Think You're Funny?
25/08/2016 … DEADPAN Australian comedian Heidi Regan has won this year's £2,500 So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, staged by the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh…
A League Of Their Own returns to the States
And three more studio series ordered
25/08/2016 … The League Of Their Own team are to go on a second American road trip.
Comic guilty of being drunk and disorderly
Monty Burns swore at cop who caught him peeing
25/08/2016 … Stand-up comic Gregor Burns – who uses the stage name Monty Burns – has admitted charges of being drunk and disorderly after he swore at a police…
Channel 5 goes back to the Borderline
25/08/2016 … Channel 5’s comedy Borderline is to return for a second series.
© BBC/Scott Kershaw BBC to make Nigel Farage comedy
Starring Porridge's Kevin Bishop
25/08/2016 … The BBC is to make a spoof about Nigel Farage’s life after quitting politics.
Dawn French to host kids' talent show
US format Little Big Shots comes to ITV
25/08/2016 … Dawn French is to host an ITV show highlighting talented children.