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BAFTA Awards 2014 - comedy nominations
The IT Crowd leads the comedy-related nominations for the 2014 BAFTA awards. Other shortlisted shows include Count Arthur Strong, Him & Her and Toast Of London. Read |
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Top sitcom writer Bob Larbey has died
Bob Larbey, one of Britain's most prolific sitcom writers with credits including The Good Life and As Time Goes By, has died aged 79. Read |
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Comedy Central UK to launch new comedy website
Comedy Central has hired a former editor of Heat magazine to set up a website featuring 'funny videos, lists, quizzes and articles featuring big name celebs'. Read |
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Monty Python release new song and announce final live show
Monty Python have released a music video for new music track The Silly Walks Song and announced that they will not tour their new live show. Read |
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Alan Partridge gets movie sequel and new Sky series
Steve Coogan is to return to the big screen with an Alan Partridge feature film sequel, as well as a new series and Coast-like special on Sky. Read |
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Sony Radio Awards 2014 comedy nominations
The Sony Radio Academy Award nominees include Bridget Christie, John Finnemore, David Quantick, Here Be Dragons and The Secret World. Read |
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Men Behaving Badly writer and producer team up for hotel sitcom
Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye and producer Beryl Vertue have teamed up again to work on Private Parts, a new sitcom set in a hotel. Read |
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Here are some pages on other websites that you might also be interested in...
- A stunt from ITV prank show Off Their Rockers couldn't be used because it caught two love cheats meeting up on camera: The Mirror
- Father Ted co-writer Arthur Mathews is working on a Radio 4 sitcom in which Parliament is dominated by female MPs: British Comedy Guide
- The cast of Still Game invaded a pub quiz in Glasgow, and then delivered the Scottish dancefloor favourite The Slosh: Daily Record
- A copy of Love, Life And Laughter, a lost 1923 film starring Betty Balfour, has been found in the Netherlands: BBC News
- Joe Thomas says The Inbetweeners Movie 2 is funnier than the first film: Digital Spy
- A fun quiz from The Guardian about two of Robert Webb's characters. Who said it? PG Wodehouse's Wooster or Peep Show's Jez? The Guardian
- An article from The Express featuring some of the greatest lines from the UK's funniest classic comedians: The Express
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Bob Larbey interview
In this interview, top sitcom writer Bob Larbey - who died last week - talks about starting out, creating The Good Life, and the sitcom idea he never could get made. Read
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Facts and photos from Steve Best's Comedy Snapshot book
Stand-up comic Steve Best has published a book featuring lots of photos from the comedy circuit. See some of the pictures, plus facts supplied by the comedians here. e.g. What embarrassing thing does Jack Whitehall still have in his room? Read
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Greg Davies podcast
Stand-up comedian and actor Greg Davies is a very funny man indeed - as he demonstrates in this interview for Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. Listen |
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Win tickets to Nina Conti's DVD recording
Nina Conti is recording her new DVD in Leeds next week. We have a pair of tickets to hand to a reader. Enter the competition here, and find out more about how to book tickets to be in the audience. Enter |
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No Pressure To Be Funny
Dolphins in Ukraine. Just one of the topics discussed on the topical panel show podcast. Guests include Robin Ince, and there's music from Pippa Evans. Listen |
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| TV Listings |
Here is a guide to the new British comedy on TV this week...
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8 Out Of 10 Cats
Monday, Channel 4, 10pm
Alex Jones, Josh Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan and Spencer Matthews are the guests taking part in the topical show tonight. Guide |
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Rev
Monday, BBC Two, 10pm
The ecclesiastical comedy continues. A local artist offers to make a big cash donation to St Saviour's. Has Adam found a solution to his financial problems? Guide |
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The Michael McIntyre Chat Show
Monday, BBC One, 10:35pm
More chat with Michael McIntyre. Holly Willoughby talks about her latest children's book, Dynamo brings some magic to the studio and Ray Winstone talks about his role in Noah. Guide |
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Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums
Tuesday, Dave, 10pm
Throw away those tedious textbooks and join Dara for another light-hearted masterclass in maths. Guests Susan Calman and Andrew Maxwell will try to outdo the clever clogs host. Guide |
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Sweat The Small Stuff
Tuesday, BBC Three, 10pm
A third series of the panel show about trivial things. Joining Grimmy again are team captains Rochelle Humes and Melvin Odoom. The panel is completed by star of The Call Centre, Nev Wilshire, plus Katherine Ryan and Ed Gamble. Guide |
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W1A
Wednesday, BBC Two, 10pm
The last episode in the series (although it's been a hit, so expect more). A national paper publishes a story on how Ian took Sally Owen, his PA at the Olympic Deliverance Commission, on holiday to Italy. Olivia Colman makes a cameo appearance. Guide |
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Celebrity Juice
Thursday, ITV2, 10pm
Guests joining Keith Lemon this time include controversial columnist Katie Hopkins and stand-up Chris Ramsey. We've linked to an interview in our guide in which Holly Willoughby defends the treatment of women on the show. Guide |
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Some Funeral Directors With Jokes
Thursday, BBC Four, 10:30pm
Funeral directors from around the UK resurrect their favourite jokes. This lot are usually deadly serious, but this show sees them preparing a special eulogy to laughter in a veritable casketful of corkers with no corpsing guaranteed. Guide |
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Have I Got News For You
Friday, BBC One, 9pm
Ian and Paul return to pick over the week's news again. No news yet on who the host or panellists will be. Remember: there's a longer version of the show broadcast on Tuesday nights. Guide |
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Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Friday, Channel 4, 10pm
Alan is joined by Britain's Got Talent judges David Walliams, Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon. Jennifer Saunders chats about the paperback release of her autobiography, and there's music from The Vamps too. Guide |
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The Trip
Friday, BBC Two, 10pm
Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's show continues. They go on a boat trip, taking in a local restaurant and Percy Shelley's house for a picture before continuing their journey and arriving at another restaurant. Guide |
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The Graham Norton Show
Friday, BBC One, 10:35pm
Together on Graham's sofa this week: the stars of The Amazing Spiderman 2 - Spidey and Gwen, Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone; and Oscar-winning Hollywood star Jamie Foxx. With music from Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini. Guide |
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The Guess List
Saturday, BBC One, 9:30pm
Rob Brydon stars in another show - but one that couldn't be more different from low key outing The Trip. This is a big new Saturday night comedy entertainment series featuring various celebrities. There's a trailer in our guide. Guide |
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Morecambe & Wise Live
Saturday, Channel 5, 10:10pm
A very notable repeat, titled 'Morecambe And Wise Live 1973: Rare And Unseen For 27 Years'. That nearly says it all really. This is the first time in 27 years this live show has been broadcast - it's the legendary duo's only ever fully-recorded stage performance. Guide |
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Off Their Rockers
Sunday, ITV, 7:30pm
More pranks. A Rocker performs a daredevil escape from an OAP home, Rosemary needs help to locate her pet dog Nigel, and Sonia has a quick nap on a nice comfy shoulder. Guide |
For a complete list of broadcasts, including London Live shows, CBBC output, and radio comedy, see our full schedule.
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The Complete Brittas Empire - Series One To Seven
PRE-ORDER. The entire classic comedy series in which Gordon Brittas (Chris Barrie) is the manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. He means well and desperately wants to be a good manager. Unfortunately his best talent is to continually create recipes for total disaster, make everyone's lives far more difficult, and stir up plenty of ill-feeling. Details |
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The New (Incomplete) Complete And Utter History Of Britain
OUT NOW. The release many a comedy fan has been waiting for. From Pythons Michael Palin and Terry Jones, 1969 saw ITV broadcast The Complete And Utter History Of Britain. Much of the series is now missing presumed wiped, but the existing episodes have been restored, and with brand newly filmed inserts to link together other surviving sketches, this cannot be missed. Blu-ray & DVD Details |
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Rev - Series Three
PRE-ORDER. The contemporary comedy about an inner city London vicar returns for a third series that asks big questions of the Reverend Adam Smallbone as he and his wife Alex adjust to life as new parents. How will Adam deal with parenthood on top of his small but demanding Church congregation? As if that wasn't bad enough, the church is now under threat of closure... Details |
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Gregory's Girl
PRE-ORDER. Bitter-sweet comedy from Bill Forsyth. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is a gawky adolescent living in a Scottish new town. He is the star of the school football team until the arrival of the gorgeous Dorothy (Dee Hepburn), the only female player, who quickly replaces him. He sets about trying to win her affections... Now available in crisp HD. Blu-ray Details & DVD Details |
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Blandings - Series Two
OUT NOW. Complete second series of the hit sitcom based on the celebrated stories by P.G. Wodehouse, this is BBC One's Blandings, starring Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Tim Vine. Set in 1929, the series follows Clarence Threepwood (Spall), his overbearing sister, Connie, and his dim-witted but charming son, Freddie. Guest stars include Harry Enfield and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Details |
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It's Not Cricket
OUT NOW. Major Bright (Basil Radford) and Captain Early (Naunton Wayne) are two helpless former intelligence officers in post-war Britain. Having formed a private detective agency, the amateur cricketers are invited to a weekend country house party for a cricket match and stumble across a robbery plot involving a diamond stolen by a criminal they previously allowed to escape... Details |
For more, see our full list of new releases and items coming soon.
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| Guide Spotlight |
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Isy Suttie's Love Letters
She's probably still best known for her role as David Mitchell's love interest in hit TV sitcom Peep Show, but actor and comedian Isy Suttie has a fair few other credits to her name including this, her own BBC Radio 4 series. With music and storytelling, Suttie shares a myriad of comic tales she has encountered in the world of love, dating and romance, both involving herself and others. Guide |
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| Thanks for Reading |
We'll be back next Monday with another dose of the latest comedy news, videos and features. Have a good week!
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