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© Ralf Lotys/CC BY-SA 4.0 Edinburgh's Free Festival shows to offer BSL interpretation for the first time
24/07/2022 … The Laughing Horse’s Free Festival is to offer British Sign Language translation for the first time.
Festival gig for Jon Holmes's Radio 4 show, and the rest of the week's live comedy
24/07/2022 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the thousands of events Chortle currently has listed.
24/07/2022 … Comedians Darren Harriott, Russell Kane, Tom Rosenthal and Suzi Ruffell are to take to part in a celebrity version of the Commonwealth Games.
...but the night belongs to Dame Deborah James,
24/07/2022 … James Acaster and Jamali Maddix took home gongs at the British podcast awards last night.
22/07/2022 … Adrian Edmondson is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Christmas Carol.
© BBC Studios Goodbye to Liam Williams' coming-of-age comedy
22/07/2022 … Liam William’s BBC Three comedy Ladhood is coming to an end after three series.
© Matt Crockett 22/07/2022 … Comedy streaming service NextUp have announced the full list of shows they will be broadcasting live from the Edinburgh Fringe.
Joe Lycett and Jamie Macdonald shortlisted for a Grierson
21/07/2022 … Joe Lycett, blind comic Jamie Macdonald and Taskmaster’s Alice Levine have all been shortlisted for a prestigious award for being the best documentary presenter.
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