📨 The week's comedy news

No 684
June 12, 2015

It might anger the mountain gods, but what the heck, it's this week comedy news round-up.

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A fifth series of Matt Le Blanc comedy Episodes has been commissioned.

ITV2 comedy Plebs is being promoted to the main ITV channel.

Katie Hopkins is hoping to employ comedians to boost her career – via a debate show from the people who brought you Dapper Laughs On The Pull.

ITV is to air a documentary about Kenny Everett this Christmas, featuring unseen home movie footage and family photographs.

Angela Barnes has landed her first Radio 4 series... while Morwenna Banks and Rebecca Front are to star in a new Radio 4 sitcom based in a library.

Billy Connolly is to cross mainland USA by train for a new ITV travel series.

Sky 1 has ordered a third series of Lee Mack's panel show Duck Quacks Don't Echo.

Channel 4 has been recommissioning, too, with new series for Raised By Wolves and Drifters

And Dave has snapped up the rights to acclaimed US mockumentary Parks and Recreation.

Several media outlets have started listing the funniest shows at the Edinburgh Fringe – so here's our take on the best shows at the 2015 festival.

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We've also announced the lineup for this year's Fast Fringe, with almost 30 Edinburgh-bound comedy and variety acts doing very short sets for your entertainment The show takes place at the Leicester Square Theatre on Sunday July 5, and tickets – and the line-up – are available here

Stewart Francis on tour with Pun Gent

Tommy Tiernan's new stand-up show, Out Of The Whirlwind

And the Leicester Square Theatre Old Comedian Of The Year competition final

Save BBC Three? Why should we?

And one comic talks about being left 'homeless' at the Edinburgh Fringe bu the Cowgatehead fiasco...

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A trailer for a dark_net, a short film starring Johnny Vegas; a couple of Jurassic World-inspired spoofs and British comedy-ventriloquist Paul Zerdin appears on America's Got Talent, among many more

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