Chortle Digest: Russell Brand, Stewart Lee, Chris Rock and more

Welcome to your weekly round-up of comedy news, courtesy of Chortle. As always check chortle.co.uk for listings of more than 6,000 live comedy gigs as well as all the breaking news, reviews and features

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 'You need sympathy for him, even though he's an asshole': David Cross and Stephen Mangan on their new Sky One comedy,  Bliss

As social work comedy Damned returns to Channel 4, hear fromcreator Jo Brand ...and co-star Alan Davies.

Thirty years on, we ask: Whatever happened to the Hi-de-Hi! cast?

And try our weekly comedy trivia quiz. 



Chris Rock: Total Blackout tour

Inside No 9: And The Winner Is...

A Futile And Stupid Gesture, a Netflix biopic of National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney

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