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Elijah Wood signs up for new series
23/03/2016 … Hobbit star Elijah Wood has signed up to the new TV adaptation of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
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Wed 23 March 2016
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© C4 Scrotal Recall to return
23/03/2016 … Scrotal Recall has been re-commissioned for a seconds series – but on Netflix, not Channel 4.
Katt Williams punches a teenager in the face
But comes off worst in the end...
23/03/2016 … Katt Williams has been caught on camera punching a teenager in the face.
Tue 22 March 2016
Chortle Award 2016 winners named
Triple victory for Joseph Morpurgo
22/03/2016 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer were honoured with an award for outstanding contribution to comedy at the Chortle Awards tonight.
Marlon Wayans to perform in the UK
22/03/2016 … Marlon Wayans is to make his London stand-up debut.
Terminally ill comic lands HBO special
22/03/2016 … A young comedian with incurable cancer has been given his dream – an HBO special – thanks to Ellen DeGeneres.
Comedy writers up for Baftas
22/03/2016 … The writers of Peep Show, Hunderby, Catastrophe and Peter Kay’s Car Share have been shortlisted for a Bafta award.
I Live With Models gets a second series
22/03/2016 … Comedy Central is to make a second series of I Live With Models.