TIM MINCHIN, award-winning comedian, actor and composer, has confirmed new UK dates of his BACK tour this autumn.
Tony Hendra, who was best known to many film fans as Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith, has died. He was 79.
Hendra had a much more extensive comedy career however. He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and had worked with John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He was also involved in Spitting Image in the early days.
He moved to America in 1964 and opened for Lenny Bruce at the Café Au Go Go in New York.
He also worked on satirical magazine National Lampoon.
Jennifer Saunders didn't write the scripts for Absolutely Fabulous. Her daughter Beattie did.
The bombshell is dropped on the upcoming edition of confessions show Unforgivable, which goes out on Dave on Tuesday, March 9 at 10pm.
Katy Wix and Adam Drake release a brand-new podcast in which they travel up and down the country, taking their favourite people from the public eye back to the places of their youth. At each place, the guest talks through their memories (from the hilarious to the poignant), tells stories, and gives a message to their younger self.
It was always going to be tough to top last week's hilarious, compelling opening episode in which five comics mentored five non-comics to prep them for a stand up gig, but this second show in which we see those gigs does a pretty good job. Stand by for more moments that you can only watch through your fingers.
ITV is to make a new show, The Masked Dancer, with dancer Oti Mabuse joining the panel alongside Jonathan Ross, Mo Gilligan and Davina McCall with Joel Dommett (pictured) presenting.
This commission follows the success of The Masked Singer, the final of which attracted a massive consolidated audience of 10 million viewers
Comedian Ignacio Lopez has landed a commission from BBC Radio Wales for his solo show 'Spain's Greatest Export'.
The show is being produced by Bright Branch Media and is due to be recorded in the forthcoming months. Ignacio is a regular face and voice on Welsh TV & Radio with his BBC Sesh sketches racking up millions of views and last year had another bit of success when his sitcom 'Twinned Town' was commissioned for a pilot on BBC Radio Wales.
James Acaster's acclaimed show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 is to be available at last for fans to watch online at a time of their choosing.
Following a live streaming last December which was only available to watch as it went out, the show will be available on Vimeo from March 5.
The night of comedy to commemorate the genius of Jeremy Hardy has been moved to Wednesday, 26th Jan 2022 at the Eventim Apollo.
Mark Steel, Jack Dee, Harry Enfield, Miles Jupp, Angela Barnes, Imran Yusuf, Seann Walsh and Shappi Khorsandi plus others will celebrate one of the most hilarious and influential comedians of the past three decades.
Watch Sacha Baron Cohen talk about winning two Golden Globe Awards for his latest film, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Chenqui!. It won Best Musical or Comedy Film and Baron Cohen won Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.
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