Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are making a second series of Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out for BBC Four.
Bob will once again preside over the Wheel of Justice and Novelty Island will be back. There will also be the return of hit sketches The Free Runners and Mostly UnHaunted alongside a host of new characters and guest stars.
The legendary comedy duo will be joined once again by hapless Vaun (Vaun Earl Norman).
The BBC is to broadcast a brand new comedy chat show fronted by a computer-generated version of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Two 12-minute episodes of Tonight wth Vladimir Putin will be broadcast on BBC Two back-to-back from 11pm on June 23.
The guests will include Alastair Campbell, June Sarpong, Deborah Frances-White and Joe Swash.
The Comedy Store in London marked its fortieth birthday last night with a party at the Cafe De Paris. But before that there was the small matter of an enormous gig at the Piccadilly Circus venue in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust and celebrating the club's founder Don Ward, without whom the comedy scene in the UK would be very different - in fact it might not even exist.
Tobi Bakare (Officer JP Hooper), Shyko Amos (Officer Ruby Patterson), Don Warrington (Commissioner Selwyn Patterson) and Elizabeth Bourgine (Catherine Bordey) also return alongside new series regular Aude Legastelois (DS Madeleine Dumas).
Marcus Brigstocke is to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut as a director. In Red, originally commissioned for BBC Radio 4, Brigstocke writes and directs a bittersweet drama of family and addiction, based on his own recovery.
Comedian Daniel Sloss is to play a major show in Moscow in front of 3500 fans.
The gig will take place on November 23 this year at the capital city's Music Media Dome, making Sloss one of the few UK comedians to perform in Russia. Eddie Izzard and Dylan Moran are also among the select band that have previously performed in Russia, but this latest show, in which Sloss will perform his latest show X, may even be the biggest solo gig a UK stand-up has ever done in the former Soviet Union.
The sign outside the London Palladium with the big picture of Daniel Sloss on it says "as seen on Netflix". The 28-year-old stand-up has been getting increasingly popular in recent years but last autumn the streaming network put out two of his shows, Dark and Jigsaw, and since then he has gone stellar. These two Palladium dates were added to his UK tour to meet demand and in America he has just added nearly thirty more live shows to his busy Stateside schedule.
Romesh Ranganathan is the host of a brand new BBC Two topical comedy show which takes a comical look at the week’s biggest talking points.
Update: read a more detailed report here.
Comedian Jeremy Hardy has been been remembered at a private memorial held in south London.
Hardy died in February this year, aged 57.
The event was held in the Grand Hall at Battersea Arts Centre a few miles from where Hardy lived for much of his adult life.
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