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Taskmaster Series 12 line-up
Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Robinson and Victoria Coren Mitchell will take part in Taskmaster Series 12.
British Comedy Guide, 20th May 202120 names we'd like to see on Taskmaster
Which comics would you like to see on the show? Here are some name we think would make excellent competitors.
Chortle, 3rd March 2021Have I Got News For You documentary to celebrate 30 years
Have I Got News For You is to mark its 30th anniversary with a commemorative documentary. Have I Got 30 Years For You will be broadcast on BBC One over the festive period.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd November 2020Isn't the BBC something to be proud of?
I have been adoring Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse's box-fresh series of Gone Fishing, sweeping aside the claustrophobia of 2020 with vast, glittering Scottish rivers and those likeable comedians giggling on the bank. Harry Hill has come back to the BBC after 25 years with Harry Hill's World of TV, a new Sunday night clips show that had me laughing out loud from its opening moment onwards, hosing the gloom away in a fiesta of joyful silliness. And this is just the stuff that old white men have been doing! Not bad, if you think they don't get work any more!
Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Telegraph, 5th September 2020Ofcom to take no further action over Jo Brand's joke
Ofcom is to take no further action over Jo Brand's controversial joke on BBC Radio 4 about throwing battery acid.
BBC, 27th January 2020Being a Have I Got News for You guest host is now a staging post to becoming prime minister so hopefully Victoria Coren Mitchell will one day end up in No 10. Only Connect's high priestess of arcana is in the big chair tonight, helping Paul Merton and Ian Hislop brand some zingers on the bucking bronco of current affairs.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 18th October 2019Try harder to support those keeping humour alive
Victoria Coren Mitchell writes about Naga Munchetty and Jo Brand.
Victoria Coren Mitchell, The Telegraph, 5th October 2019Jo Brand to face no action over acid joke, police say
The Metropolitan Police has said it will take no further action over Jo Brand's comments on a radio show about throwing battery acid at politicians.
BBC, 14th June 2019Jo Brand battery acid joke being assessed by police
A spokesperson for the Met said: "Police have received an allegation of incitement to violence that was reported to the MPS on 13 June. The allegation relates to comments made on a radio programme. The allegation is currently being assessed. There have been no arrests and inquiries are ongoing."
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th June 2019BBC edits out Jo Brand acid joke from catch-up service
The BBC has removed a Jo Brand joke about throwing acid from its catch-up service after it was suggested that it condoned violence.
BBC, 13th June 2019