More comics join Latitude 2024
Including Sam Campbell, Seann Walsh and Desiree Burch
29/02/2024 … Sam Campbell, Seann Walsh and Desiree Burch have been added to the line-up of this year’s Latitude festival.
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Thu 29 February 2024
© BBC/Hat Trick BBC 'planning Have I Got Sport For You'
Top comedians attached to HIGNFY spinoff
29/02/2024 … The BBC is working on a spin-off from Have I Got News For You – all about sport.
Celebrating the Comic Strip Presents
Richard Herring hosts screening and Q&A with Peter Richardson
29/02/2024 … The Comic Strip Presents films are to be celebrated at a special event in London next month.
© Johan Persson Paul Whitehouse reprises Granddad role
As Only Fools And Horses musical tours the UK
29/02/2024 … Paul Whitehouse is to reprise his role as Grandad in the touring version of Only Fools and Horses The Musical.
Wed 28 February 2024
© HBO Richard Lewis dies at 76
Pioneering stand-up and Curb Your Enthusiasm star
28/02/2024 … Richard Lewis, the hugely respected stand-up who played a fictionalised version of himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died at the age of 76.
© Jiksaw Eshaan Akbar announces 2025 tour
New show for comic and Sex Education star
28/02/2024 … Eshaan Akbar has announced a new tour – a year in advance.
© Matt Crockett Cariad Lloyd joins R4's Round Britain Quiz
...where she will pit her wits against Paul Sinha
28/02/2024 … Cariad Lloyd is to become a contestant on Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz – taking on fellow comic, ITV Chaser and hardcore quizzer Paul Sinha.
Tue 27 February 2024
Bumper pay rise for Stand comedy club staff
Lowest paid get 13.6 per cent under Unite deal
27/02/2024 … More than 100 staff at the Stand comedy clubs are to get a bumper pay rise.