The University of York has launched a fundraising campaign to secure the archive of comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The university needs to raise £30,000 to ensure that some of the archive's greatest gems, including The Blood Donor sketch script, aren't split up and sold into private hands.
A signed call sheet from Gavin & Stacey's final ever scene has been donated to the charity DENS by Adrian Scarborough. The homelessness and poverty charity is now running a raffle to win it. Tickets cost £5.
It's been revealed that Daisy May Cooper voices the character of Impedimenta, the matriarchal wife of Chief Vitalstatistix, in the new Netflix series Astérix & Obélix: The Big Fight.
Aiden Cowie from Aberdeen, who was diagnosed with cancer at 18 years-old, met his comedy hero Romesh Ranganathan to ask him for tips and advice on his budding stand-up career - and ended up being offered the opportunity of a lifetime.
