BBC One is to broadcast a Sir Lenny Henry 60th Birthday special hosted by Sir Trevor McDonald.In 1975, a 16-year-old Lenny Henry bunked off school to appear on New Faces. In 2018, after a... more
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BBC Comedy has today announced its continued commitment to developing talented BAME comedy writers, with its second Felix Dexter Bursary initiative. A six-month bursary will be awarded to train... more
Inside No.9, the award winning and critically acclaimed anthology series created by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, will be returning to BBC Two this October for a special... more
Dixons Carphone Race to the Stones, the UK based ultra-trail marathon, has partnered with comedians Paul Tonkinson and Rob Deering, the marathon men behind the well-known Running Commentary... more
Bob Mortimer has talked about how close he was to having a heart attack onstage in 2015.In an interview with The Big Issue to promote his new series Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing he said it... more
Ruth Jones is to star in the new comedy The Nightingales, presented by Jenny Topper and Theatre Royal Bath Productions. The production, written by William Gaminara ... more
Award-winning comedian Hannah Gadsby has cencelled her forthcoming Edinburgh Fringe run.Gadsby was due to perform her show No Bones About It at Assembly Checkpoint from August 2 - 26. The... more
This year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival Barry Award winner Sam Campbell is to come to the Edinburgh Fringe with his acclaimed show The Trough.Campbell is the latest winner of the... more
Turtle Canyon Comedy has launched a new daily World Cup online show. From Russia With Lou & Annie is hosted by comedians Lou Sanders and Annie McGrath.A new episode will be released – sorry, will... more
Rob Brydon has added more dates to his I Am Standing Up live tour.His dates now run from September 13 in Glasgow to October 13 at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. A lot of the new dates are in Wales... more
