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THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: The series concludes with Ghosts star Jim Howick, Gloria Hunniford OBE, model Ellie Goldstein and comic Jamali Maddix taking on a retro recipe for ...
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For the snappily-named Can You Smell That? Must Be A Queen Going Off! is just as much over-the-top camp fun as her act with hubby Joseph Moore, with Daniel bringing stadium-level energy to her ...
Rhod Gilbert has revealed how he got signed by his agent after shitting himself on stage. The Welsh stand-up was signed by the agency arm of the Comedy Store the night he appeared at the prestigious ...
Known as a career-launcher across the globe, SNL is an interesting and unusual prospect for a comedy scene already in flux. With online comedy undoubtedly king in a digital age, the introduction of a ...
Mike Berry, who was the last surviving main cast member of Are You Being Served?, has died at the age of 82. He played junior salesman Mr Spooner in the last three series of the BBC sitcom in the ...
Former drama teacher Davies sprang to fame via The Inbetweeners, and has subsequently starred in BBC Three's Cuckoo, Channel 4's Man Down, which he also wrote, and is the all-powerful Taskmaster on ...
It will come as little surprise, but Have I Got News For You will tonight mock Donald Trump’s flip-flopping over tariffs, sending global economies haywire. Speaking about the chaos, Ian Hislop said: ...
Frasier said the collapse of her publisher Unbound, the restrictions on doing even unpaid promotional work on a ESTA visa waiver, and the prohibitive $3,000 cost to just apply for a visa that would ...
Eve Delaney and Ruth Huskisson has been named as this year’s staff comedy writers for BBC Studios Audio department. Their contract will involve them writing on Radio 4 shows such as The News Quiz, ...
In her solo festival debut, former Raw Comedy finalist Meg Jäger exudes a faux sense of superiority, acerbic and nonchalant. She makes smug assertions like: ‘Fleetwood Mac? Ever heard of them?’ and ...
The Burton Brothers were one of the finds of last year’s Melbourne comedy festival, with their distinctive, tightly scripted show set entirely in 1925.