BBC commissions Sue Perkins panel show
With Josh Widdicombe and Richard Osman
26/11/2015 … BBC Two has commissioned a new comedy entertainment show based around namesakes called Insert Name Here to be fronted by Sue Perkins.
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Thu 26 November 2015
Tony Blair: 'I tried being a stand-up comedian'
26/11/2015 … Tony Blair performed stand-up comedy – but admits he was 'really dire'.
Wed 25 November 2015
Count Arthur is back!
New Christmas special for Radio 4
25/11/2015 … Count Arthur Strong is to return to Radio 4 for a Christmas special.
© Steve Ullathorne Merton takes on Milligan
New version of Spike's classic play
25/11/2015 … Paul Merton has adapted Spike Milligan’s classic absurdist play The Bed-sitting Room for the radio.
Under OLD management
New contract for Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms
25/11/2015 … Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms venue will be back under old management for next year's Fringe.
Comics bring classical music to life
Vikki Stone and Doc Brown in BBC Two film
25/11/2015 … Nikki Stone and Doc Brown are to help bring classical music to life in a new film for BBC TwoTen Pieces II is described as 'an exciting and immersive family film…
Comic jailed for racist comments
25/11/2015 … French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has been sentenced to two months jail for racist and antisemitic comments made on stage.
Fawlty Towers hits the stage
John Cleese adapts his scripts
25/11/2015 … John Cleese is to bring Fawlty Towers to the stage.