Chortle Digest: Romesh Ranganathan, Jack Whitehall, Robert Webb and more

No 795
September 22, 2017

Sky1 has picked up Romesh Ranganathan’s semi-autobiographical sitcom The Reluctant Landlord.

Karl Pilkington is to star in his own Sky1 sitcom – about what his life had been like had he not met Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

The BBC is shooting a Dave Allen biopic starring Game of Thrones actor Aidan Gillen as the Irish comic

French and Saunders are to record their first TV material as a double act in ten years.

Netflix has ordered a fifth series of animated hit BoJack Horseman.

Details of two new episodes in the fourth series of Inside No 9 have been revealed.

Armando Iannucci’s new comedy movie The Death Of Stalin could be banned in Russia for ‘discrediting’ the former Soviet leader.

Mel Brooks has joined the chorus of voices warning that ‘political correctness’ is ruining comedy.

Comedians on ice! Our exclusive photo gallery and trailer of the forthcoming epic show..

...and try our weekly comedy trivia quiz .

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Theatre:
Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Sara Pascoe

TV:
Jack Whitehall: Travels With My Father
Jack Dee in Bad Move
New BBC2 sketch pilot Famalam
Dave's new sitcom Porters
Jerry Before Seinfeld
The return of W1A
Jonny Pelham on NextUp

Book
How Not To Be A Boy by Robert Webb

Win some of Peter Sellers' stranger movies on DVD.

Russell Howard on the Parsons Green bomb, preview clip from the new BBC comedy The Pact and Harry & Chris sing a tour song, among many more.

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