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© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian 17/03/2015 … Sometimes their gruesome comedy can be stomach-churning, but Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton literally made Jack Whitehall sick on the set of Inside No 9.
16/03/2015 … Bridget Christie and James Acaster have won two accolades apiece at the Chortle Awards tonight.
What Would Beyonce Do? out next year
16/03/2015 … Luisa Omielan has signed a book deal based on her breakout stand-up show What Would Beyoncé Do?Publishers Century will publish the book, with the same title, in…
© Steve Ullathorne 15/03/2015 … The comedy week ahead… Sunday March 15TV: Nina Conti follows her award-winning directorial debut, Her Master's Voice, with Clowning Around, an intimate documentary…
Ben Miller, Romesh Ranganathan and Rachel Riley
15/03/2015 … Ben Miller and Romesh Ranganathan are set to host a new science entertainment series for ITV.
Watch 10 comedy highlights from Red Nose Day...
14/03/2015 … More than £78million was raised during yesterday's Red Nose Night TV broadcast – bringing the total raised over 30 years to more than £1billion.
Comic pulls out of US festival
14/03/2015 … Russell Brand has unexpectedly pulled out of a keynote talk at the prestigious American festival where the film of his life premiered last night.
13/03/2015 … One of Tunisia’s leading comedians has been arrested for ’offending’ the president.
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