© BBC Indoor gigs back on August 1
...but will social distancing make them unviable?
17/07/2020 … Boris Johnson has signalled that live indoor performances can resume as early as August 1.
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Fri 17 July 2020
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Life of Brian downgraded to a 12A
Python film loses its stigma with film board's new rating
17/07/2020 … Monty Python's Life of Brian - the film so controversial it was banned from some British cinemas on its release in 1979 - has been reclassified as a 12A.
Richard Herring pens an International Men's Day book
17/07/2020 … Richard Herring has written a book inspired by his annual battle with sexist trolls on International Women's Day.
Thu 16 July 2020
Montreal's Just For Laughs moves to the radio
16/07/2020 … The Just For Laughs comedy festival has announced a raft of programming on paid-for US digital radio network SiriusXM in place of its Montreal event.
© Matt Humphrey Fleabag back in cinemas
Recording of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s West End hit is being screened for the next week
16/07/2020 … Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one woman stage version of Fleabag is returning to cinemas tomorrow.
© Comedy Central Jimmy Carr to headline socially distanced gigs
Other comics lined up for Popup Picnics, too
16/07/2020 … Jimmy Carr is to headline the socially-distanced Popup Picnics this summer, it has been announced.
© Dave Morris / Monkeywing/CC BY-SA 2.0 More drive-in gigs hit the skids
Low ticket sales and new lockdown fears blamed
16/07/2020 … Organisers have pulled the plug on a second raft of drive-in comedy ventures, blaming insufficient ticket sales.
Urzila Carlson joins The Masked Singer Australia
16/07/2020 … New Zealand based comedian Urzila Carlson has joined the judging panel of The Masked Singer in Australia.