Peter Crouch to host a comedy-entertainment show
13/12/2019 … Peter Crouch is to host a BBC One comedy entertainment series during the Euro 2020 football finals.
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Fri 13 December 2019
Chris Cotton dies at 32
Comedy Central comic was about to become a father
13/12/2019 … US comedian Chris Cotton has died aged 32.
Fourth series for Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Commission hot on the heels of season 3
13/12/2019 … The Marvelous Mrs Maisel has been renewed for a fourth season.
Thu 12 December 2019
Blake Harrison and Meera Syal join ITV's refugee comedy
12/12/2019 … Meera Syal and Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison are joining the cast of new ITV sitcom Kate And Koji.
Australian TV's top comedy executive stands down
12/12/2019 … Rick Kalowski is standing down from his job as head of comedy at Australia’s ABC.
Wed 11 December 2019
Jim Davidson quits running his charity
Comic helped veterans... but not without some controversy
11/12/2019 … Jim Davidson has stepped down as chief executive of Care After Combat, the charity helping veterans which he helped set up in 2014.
Rob Delaney joins Home Alone reboot
Opposite Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Ellie Kemper
11/12/2019 … Rob Delaney and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Ellie Kemper have signed up for the reboot of Home Alone.
Hoax! Truth behind 'hate speech in comedy' article revealed
Comedian Andrew Doyle admits he wrote controversial piece
11/12/2019 … Andrew Doyle has admitted to writing a hoax article which slated the stand-up circuit as a hotbed of racism and sexism.