Adam Buxton joins Diet Of Worms
10/03/2016 … Irish sketch group Diet of Worms are returning to the BBC with a Radio 4 pilot.
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Thu 10 March 2016
Vimeo launches comedy shows
10/03/2016 … Video website Vimeo has announced a new range of comedy commissions, including a new show starring comedy duo Jake & Amir and a special from musical comics Garfunkel…
BBC announces new pilots
Shows from Johnny Vegas, Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan
10/03/2016 … BBC Two is to showcase five new comedy pilots this summer, including comedies from Johnny Vegas and Graham Linehan and Sharon Horgan.
'Reimagining hits of the past'
Revealed: Full details of BBC's landmark sitcom season
10/03/2016 … The BBC has announced further details of its landmark comedy season for this summer, with confirmation of a Keeping Up Appearances prequel.
Chubby Brown: I'm cleaner than Jimmy Carr
Comic hits back after council ban
10/03/2016 … Roy Chubby Brown has claimed he's 'the Archbishop of Canterbury' compared to Jimmy Carr, after a local council forced him to cancel a gig.
Student award: Warwick poll opens
10/03/2016 … Votes have now opened for the People's Choice award for the Warwick leg of the Chortle Student Comedy award.
Wed 09 March 2016
Jo's Brand new show
Going Forward with a follow-up to Getting On
09/03/2016 … BBC Four has commissioned Jo Brand to make a follow-up to her hospital sitcom Getting On.
Apocalypse No
Doomsday for Sky's end-of-world comedy
09/03/2016 … Sky's star-studded comedy-drama You, Me And The Apocalypse – which dealt with the countdown to a meteor strike on Earth – has not been renewed…