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More than 700 shows in 2026 programme
29/10/2025 … Leicester Comedy Festival has announced that its 2026 theme will be The Art of Comedy, celebrates humour ‘as a true art form, standing alongside theatre,…
29/10/2025 … Only Murders In The Building is heading to London.
Nine announced in the last 36 hours
28/10/2025 … Nine comedy tours have been announced in the last 36 hours, including Taskmaster stars Mike Wozniak and Maisie Adam, and podcast king Adam Rowe.
28/10/2025 … An episode of Fawlty Towers is to air on BBC One tonight in tribute to Prunella Scales, following her death yesterday at the age of 83.
Two Soho Theatre Walthamstow dates announced
28/10/2025 … American comedian Kate Berlant is to play the Soho Theatre Walthamstow next year, playing to her biggest audience yet in the UK.
© BBC She had been had been watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.
28/10/2025 … Prunella Scales, who will forever be known as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93.
Ben Elton says a new installment is 'cosmically unlikely'
28/10/2025 … Ben Elton has scoffed at the idea of a Swinging Sixties revival of Blackadder and says a fifth series is ‘cosmically unlikely’.
© Callum Parke/PA Images/Alamy Academic sued over his portrayal in comic's Richard III filn
27/10/2025 … Steve Coogan and the producers of his film The Lost King have agreed to pay an academic ‘substantial damages’ for defamation about how he was portrayed…
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