Harry Hill leads new batch of iPlayer comedies
Funny Valentines 2016 announced
22/01/2016 … Harry Hill, Stephen Mangan and Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray are to make new shorts for the BBC iPlayer.
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Fri 22 January 2016
© Paul Rider Robbie Coltrane to play sex-case comedian
Yewtree-inspired drama for Channel 4
22/01/2016 … Robbie Coltrane is to play a fading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police operation into historic sex crimes.
Legal victory for Bill Cosby
22/01/2016 … Bill Cosby has won a legal victory in his battle against a flurry of sexual abuse allegations.
© BBC BBC comedy loses its second exec this week
Ben Farrell goes back to indie Objective
22/01/2016 … The BBC’s in-house comedy department has lost its second executive in a week.
'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.
© 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
© 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…