Hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury makes it to TV
... for BBC One Comedy Playhouse
26/01/2016 … Inept hospital DJ Ivan Brackenbury is to star in his own BBC One pilot.
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Tue 26 January 2016
Mark Watson pilots new TV show
Based on ...Makes The World Substantially Better
26/01/2016 … Mark Watson is working on a TV adaptation of his Radio 4 series …Makes The World Substantially Better.
Memorial gig for Harry Hill's TV 'son'
Al Murray reforms the pub band one last time
26/01/2016 … Harry Hill has launched a comic fundraiser in memory of Matt Bradstock-Smith, who played his ’adopted son Alan’ in his early career and who died of cancer aged…
Russell Howard dodges boobs
26/01/2016 … Russell Howard is to front a ‘celebrity boob ball’ tournament next week.
Comedian bids to become a cage fighter
'It's brutal' says Bryan Lacey as his MMA training starts
26/01/2016 … Comedian Bryan Lacey is retraining… as a cage fighter.
© Paul Lippiatt Ken Dodd's tickled by festival honour
Slapstick dubs him a 'comedy legend'
26/01/2016 … Ken Dodd has been awarded the Comedy Legend award by the Slapstick festival in Bristol He becomes only the third person to take the accolade, following…
Mon 25 January 2016
Frank Skinner 'has no show'
Comic returns to improvised stand-up
25/01/2016 … Frank Skinner is launching a new stand-up show, which he says will be entirely improvised.
Family Guy's transsexual episode cleared
25/01/2016 … Ofcom has ruled that an episode of Family Guy about a transgender woman did not breach its guidelines on causing offense.