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Sun 18 October 2015
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© C4/Aimee Spinks BBC comedy risks becoming 'sexist and racist'
Says Jessica Knappett of BBC Three plans
16/10/2015 … The BBC’s comedy output risks becoming more ‘racist, sexist and classist’ because of the Government-imposed cuts, Inbetweeners actress Jessica Knappett…
UK book deal for Amy Schumer
Memoirs to be published next year
16/10/2015 … Amy Schumer's memoirs are to be published in the UK in a deal worth 'well into six figures'.
Catherine Tate: I'm planning to tour
16/10/2015 … Catherine Tate is considering her first live tour, possibly as early as this spring.
Graham Chapman's blue plaque 'stolen'
Palin slams 'stupid and selfish' act
16/10/2015 … Thieves are thought to have stolen a blue plaque celebrating Monty Python's Graham Chapman.
Stanhope skewers cut-and-paste journalism
16/10/2015 … •'I can't imagine anyone going to a John Oliver show is going to be a prick.
Manford and Jupitus join Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Comics tour with musical next year
16/10/2015 … Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus are to star in the 2016 UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Radio 2 takes a pun-t on Tim Vine
16/10/2015 … TIM VINE's Chat Show is the fifth pilot to be featured in Radio 2's Comedy Showcase season.