Meet the new head of BBC radio comedy production
11/02/2016 … The BBC has officially appointed its new chief of in-house radio comedies, Julia McKenzie.
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Comedian proposes on stage – and gets rejected
10/02/2016 … Excruciating footage has emerged of a stand-up proposing on stage – only to be rejected.
© Petr Novák / Creative Commons Chris Morris is developing a new movie
Satirist working with Film4 again
10/02/2016 … Chris Morris is making a new film, it has been revealed.
C5 orders improvised border guards mockumentary
Its first new comedy in a decade
10/02/2016 … Channel 5 has ordered an improvised mockumentary based around border guards.
100 comics protest baby deportations
Open letter from Australia's 'professional dickheads’
10/02/2016 … <p> A hundred of Australia’s leading comedians have issued an open letter to their government urging them not to deport 37 babies.
Matt Richardson joins Virgin Radio
10/02/2016 … Comic Matt Richardson is to be the drivetime DJ on Virgin Radio when it returns to the airwaves next month.
Mel Giedroyc to star in ‘a modern Round The Horne’
Radio 4 picks up Justin Edwards's sketch show
10/02/2016 … Mel Giedroyc is to star in a new Radio 4 sketch comedy show described as a ‘modern Round The Horne’.
© Andy Hollingworth Romesh to face Nigel Farage on Question Time
10/02/2016 … ROMESH RANGANATHAN is set to clash with Nigel Farage on Question time tomorrow night.