'Seriously, give me a clown on the table'
22/01/2016 … •‘Nothing that is mere wordplay is ever witty, so the man who makes puns must do all his own laughing.
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Fri 22 January 2016
© Christopher William Adach/Creative Commons Julie Walters joins sex-case drama
Alongside Robbie Coltrane as a comedian under scrutiny
22/01/2016 … Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough are to join Robbie Coltrane in a new Channel 4 drama about a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police…
Thu 21 January 2016
Kelly Brook joins Lemon & McGuinness show
Playing Wonder Woman in one skecth
21/01/2016 … Kelly Brook is to appear in the planned new Keith Lemon and Paddy McGuinness sketch show.
Amy Schumer hits back at joke thief claims
And she's ready to take a lie detector test
21/01/2016 … Amy Schumer has promised to take a lie detector test to show that she hasn’t stolen jokes.
Philomena Cunk gets her own show
21/01/2016 … Philomena Cunk has been given her own show – about Shakespeare.
© Gary Knight / Creative Commons Corbyn: The Musical in the pipeline
Lolly Adefope could play Diane Abbott
21/01/2016 … A comedy musical about Jeremy Corbyn is to hit London later this year.
© Richard Davenport Book deal for Fake It Til You Make It duo
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn return to male depression
21/01/2016 … Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn – whose comic-theatre show about depression Fake It 'Til You Make It was a fringe hit last year – have signed…
Who's coming to Successville?
Emma Bunton and Vicky Pattison play detective
21/01/2016 … Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton and Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison are to play detective in the next series of Murder In Successville.