Chortle Digest: Mock The Week, Russell Kane and Jerry Springer The Opera

No 785
June 23, 2017

Russell Kane is to host a new gameshow in which angry people get to smash up things.

Mock The Week quietly achieved a milestone last night – its first episode with TWO female comedians.

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have reunited to be awarded a comedy legend award

A coal mining tycoon is suing John Oliver over the latest episode of Last Week Tonight.

Miranda Hart, Harry Hill and Alan Carr are to star in new entertainment shows for Channel 4.

Jerry Springer: The Opera is to play in New York – more than a decade after it was supposed to.

Some of Britain’s best up-and-coming comics have been recruited as ‘correspondents’ for the Last Leg in a new spin-off series.

Two-thirds of The Festival of the Spoken Nerd have signed a book deal.

...as has comic Ariane Sherine

Tommy Tiernan is returning to sitcom for the first time in more than 15 years.

Viceland is to air a new series looking at the US comedy scene, and what it takes to become a stand-up today

Comedian and Game Of Thrones star Gemma Whelan has joined the cast of E4’s The End of the F***ing World.

Can we end all the dead hooker jokes? asks one sex worker

On the state of women in comedy

Why becoming a stand-up might not be such a great idea

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The first wave of acts for the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway 2017 has just been announced featuring an exclusive Irish date from Patton Oswalt - a massive coup for the festival.

Jon Richardson, Katy Brand, Al Porter, Dermot & Dave and Reginald D Hunter are also announced in this first tranche of shows.

The festival runs from October 24 to 30, and tickets are on sale now from vodafonecomedycarnival.com

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