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The week's comedy news

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The week's comedy news
No 685
June 19, 2015

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

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 Channel 4 has decided to drop the British Comedy Awards after four years.

Gary: Tank Commander is to play three arena gigs at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro next year.

Sandi Toksvig says she was turned down as host of Have I Got News For You – just because she was a woman.

Romesh Ranganathan is making a travelogue for BBC Three exploring his Sri Lankan roots.

Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe has gone global – signing deals to be shown in ten more countries.

Horror director Rob Zombie is to make a new biopic about Groucho Marx.

Nick Frost is writing a 'movingly honest' memoir about his troubled early life.

Entries are now open for the BBC Radio New Comedy Award.

The documentary Misery Loves Comedy is to be shown in British cinemas after getting a distribution deal.

The Dave channel has snapped up the rights to US post-apocalyptic comedy The Last Man on Earth.

And Marc Maron has landed his biggest podcast guest yet: Barack Obama.


Some of the finest moments of the British Comedy Awards.

Our guide to the Edinburgh Fringe shows moved because of the Cowgatehead chaos

 

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Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have just been announced as headline guests at  this year's Chortle conference, an invaluable day of events giving comedians and would-be comedians (and writers) invaluable advice on the business workings of the industry. All the details are 
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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

Is Jurassic World racist? What Doogie Howser MD would be like now, a peak at Louis CK's first role in an animated feature filmand a new Quint Fontana music video, among many more

Click here for all the videos we've featured this week.

 
 
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