Monica Dolan joins Smoggie Queens
03/08/2025 … Monica Dolan has joined the supporting cast for the second series of the BBC's Middlesbrough-based comedy Smoggie Queens.
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Sun 03 August 2025
'A disaster for any comedian'
Edinburgh Comedy Awards boss Nica Burns on the Jewish comedians axed from their venue
03/08/2025 … Edinburgh Comedy Awards chief Nica Burns has praised the Fringe community for finding a new home for Jewish comedian Rachel Creeper after she was booted out of her…
© Matt Crockett What will Maisie Adam banish to Room 101?
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
03/08/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…: Tuesday August 5 ROOM 101: Paul Merton returns to ask celebrities to banish the things…
Meet the Slut Witch
03/08/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
© BBC Harry Hill: My stepfather's death inspired me to get into comedy
Stand-up appears on Desert Island Discs
03/08/2025 … Harry Hill says he was inspired to leave medicine to become a comedian by the death of his stepfather Tony.
Fri 01 August 2025
© Rob Parfitt / Channel 4 Watch the first sketch from Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping
Channel 4 series airs next month
01/08/2025 … Channel 4 has released the first sketch from Mitchell And Webb Are Not Helping.
Thu 31 July 2025
Jason Manford pulls gigs for emergency appendix operation
Comic taken ill 'at 70mph on the motorway'
31/07/2025 … Jason Manford has revealed the reason he had to cancel shows this weekend was because he’s undergone emergency appendix surgery.
Jimmy Tarbuck writes his autobiography
First memoirs... at the age of 85
31/07/2025 … Jimmy Tarbuck has written his autobiography – more than 60 years after his first TV appearance.