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The cast of hit 1980s holiday camp sitcom Hi-De-Hi! are to reunite online on Wednesday 25th November for a live Q&A.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3pBKYlc" />

https://ift.tt/2Ixc3VF https://ift.tt/2Ixc3VF Fri, 13 Nov 2020 11:51 GMT Comedy News

Famalam, Sex Education, Two Weeks To Live, Feel Good, This Way Up, There's Something About Movies and Agendum are nominated in the prestigious international Rose d'Or Awards 2020.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2IpgJx7" />

https://ift.tt/3poW6l6 https://ift.tt/3poW6l6 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:02 GMT Comedy News

ITV's festive schedule will feature documentaries about Billy Connolly and Mr Bean. It's also revealed a number of other shows and comedy Christmas specials.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2e7bWjc" />

https://ift.tt/2Ug7zFk https://ift.tt/2Ug7zFk Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:09 GMT Comedy News

Paul Sinha is to host a new panel show in which the questions are about television. Paul Sinha's TV Showdown will start on ITV this winter.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/36z9b2B" />

https://ift.tt/3lmpCWs https://ift.tt/3lmpCWs Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:44 GMT Comedy News

Lee Mack has been announced as the host of new ITV game show The 1% Club.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3nepFnI" />

https://ift.tt/3kgYeru https://ift.tt/3kgYeru Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:06 GMT Comedy News

Graham Norton is to stand down from presenting the Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2. He has presented the 10am to 1pm slot for a decade.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3kyga0F" />

https://ift.tt/3kotvsC https://ift.tt/3kotvsC Wed, 11 Nov 2020 15:21 GMT Comedy News

Only An Excuse?, the sketch show which has formed part of BBC One Scotland's festive schedule since the 1990s, is to end this December.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/36AVkJ5" />

https://ift.tt/3kpSWdq https://ift.tt/3kpSWdq Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:32 GMT Comedy News

Desiree Burch is to front a new panel show pilot for BBC Radio 4, BAMESHOW, in which all participants are from ethnic minorities.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2K62FsN" />

https://ift.tt/2GTFb96 https://ift.tt/2GTFb96 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:15 GMT Comedy News

Police-based sitcom Bravo Two Charlies is to return to BBC Radio Wales for a third series.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3eZ3sa4" />

https://ift.tt/2IlN8UC https://ift.tt/2IlN8UC Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:53 GMT Comedy News

Isy Suttie has written her first novel. Provisionally titled Jane Is Trying, it focuses on a funny but anxious woman back living with her parents in her late thirties.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3luCh9O" />

https://ift.tt/3eFUWNj https://ift.tt/3eFUWNj Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:28 GMT Comedy News

Sketch show Age Of Outrage is to return to BBC One Wales for a full series, following the success of a pilot episode. Sketches will be filmed remotely using new technology.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/36BGKkP" />

https://ift.tt/3n4Tw1P https://ift.tt/3n4Tw1P Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:01 GMT Comedy News

BBC One Wales has ordered two more series of The Tuckers, its sitcom about a working-class family written by and starring Steve Speirs.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/38EVzpi" />

https://ift.tt/3lcyVYK https://ift.tt/3lcyVYK Sun, 08 Nov 2020 16:01 GMT Comedy News

After Life, Friday Night Dinner, Gavin & Stacey, Ghosts, Home, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees for the I Talk Telly Awards 2020.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3knZiK8" />

https://ift.tt/35eQpOV https://ift.tt/35eQpOV Sun, 08 Nov 2020 11:19 GMT Comedy News

Jennifer Saunders is to present Memory Lane, an ITV talk show in which she drives a guest around in a 1960s E-Type Jaguar.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2UrHfrQ" />

https://ift.tt/2Idt1bx https://ift.tt/2Idt1bx Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:25 GMT Comedy News

Sitcom star Geoffrey Palmer has died aged 93. He is best remembered for his roles in Butterflies, As Time Goes By and The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3kpOX0p" />

https://ift.tt/38hnmfd https://ift.tt/38hnmfd Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:39 GMT Comedy News

Comedian Rosie Jones is developing a sitcom for the BBC, imagining her life without cerebral palsy.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2IAzq0x" />

https://ift.tt/3l88NhB https://ift.tt/3l88NhB Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:30 GMT Comedy News

Hugh Laurie will voice the central character in The Amazing Maurice, a new animated film based on a Terry Pratchett book.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3f4x0U4" />

https://ift.tt/3ex9PRK https://ift.tt/3ex9PRK Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:46 GMT Comedy News

CBBC is making Lagging, a comedy drama about a group of computer gamers. The BBC has also confirmed Class Dismissed, The Dog Ate My Homework, Justin's House and GiggleQuiz will all return.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/32DSTnV" />

https://ift.tt/3jZsnez https://ift.tt/3jZsnez Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:22 GMT Comedy News

Conservative-voting comedian Geoff Norcott is to publish a memoir exploring his "working-class upbringing and his political journey from left to right".<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/35tkvhF" />

https://ift.tt/365RqHZ https://ift.tt/365RqHZ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:00 GMT Comedy News

ITV is to broadcast Rock On, Tommy: The Bobby Ball Story, a documentary narrated by the late comedians double-act partner, Tommy Cannon.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2GYbG5U" />

https://ift.tt/32e6Vwi https://ift.tt/32e6Vwi Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:16 GMT Comedy News

Birds Of A Feather will return to screens this Christmas for a new special - but without co-star Pauline Quirke.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3eWVeiN" />

https://ift.tt/2JBw11Y https://ift.tt/2JBw11Y Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:18 GMT Comedy News

Comic actor and comedian John Sessions has died at the age of 67.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2Ix4r5C" />

https://ift.tt/34VtyHX https://ift.tt/34VtyHX Tue, 03 Nov 2020 13:04 GMT Comedy News

Nigel Ng has been the victim of a suspected racially motivated hate crime. The London-based Malaysian stand-up, best known for his Uncle Roger alter ego, was assaulted while walking home from lunch on Friday.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/38GE1sM" />

https://ift.tt/3mO1Um5 https://ift.tt/3mO1Um5 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:51 GMT Comedy News

Stand-up Dan Tiernan was the winner of the Frog And Bucket's Beat The Frog World Series 2020 new act competition.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3lyW3ks" />

https://ift.tt/3mHWHMC https://ift.tt/3mHWHMC Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:33 GMT Comedy News

Much-loved comedian Stanley Baxter has come out as gay in a shock, gossip-packed, tell-all biography published this weekend.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3eUJwp7" />

https://ift.tt/3oT9yxB https://ift.tt/3oT9yxB Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:15 GMT Comedy News

Nina Conti is writing a memoir... with her puppet Monkey. The ventriloquist has disclosed on Adam Buxton's podcast that she's writing the autobiography "in two voices".<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/2UoLMeJ" />

https://ift.tt/364npIS https://ift.tt/364npIS Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:59 GMT Comedy News

Johnny Vegas and Sian Gibson have reunited for more comedy murder mysteries on Gold, this time in a three-part series called Murder They Hope.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/32I6RFx" />

https://ift.tt/3jUjEue https://ift.tt/3jUjEue Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:00 GMT Comedy News

Rob Kemp's multi-award winning show The Elvis Dead is to be released... on video cassette.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3ltQN1F" />

https://ift.tt/2I0wutS https://ift.tt/2I0wutS Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:36 GMT Comedy News

Sir Lenny Henry is to publish a series of books for children. The publishing deal includes a picture book called You Can Do Anything, Tyrone.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/3lxHMEw" />

https://ift.tt/2HQMkHn https://ift.tt/2HQMkHn Sat, 31 Oct 2020 10:31 GMT Comedy News

US network Fox is remaking hit BBC sitcom This Country. A fourteen-episode series is now set to go into production.<br /><br /> <img src="https://ift.tt/36xnftE" />

https://ift.tt/31XW6yF https://ift.tt/31XW6yF Fri, 30 Oct 2020 18:14 GMT Comedy News

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