Harry Hill, Eddie Izzard and Philomena Cunk...it's the Chortle Digest news round-up

Harry Hill, Stephen Mangan and Citizen Khan Adil Ray are to make new shorts for the BBC iPlayer.

Robbie Coltrane is to play afading comedian caught up in an Operation Yewtree-style police operation into historic sex crimes.

 Philomena Cunk has been given her own show – about Shakespeare.

Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn – whose comic-theatre show about depression Fake It 'Til You Make It was a fringe hit last year – have signed their first book deal.

Amy Schumer has promised to takea lie detector test to show that she hasn’t stolen jokes.

Former Spice Girl Emma Bunton and Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison are to play detective in thenext series of Murder In Successville.

Stand-up Abi Roberts is claiming an international first in becoming the first British comedian to perform in Russia - in Russian.

Steve Coogan is to play Stan Laurel in a new biopic of Laurel and Hardy, as well as Richard Gere's brother in a new film drama.

The BBC’s in-house comedy department has lost both its boss Myfanwy Moore, and  executive producer Ben Farrell, within a week.

Watching sitcoms and laughing out loudcan help people to lose weight, according to research.

Peter Kay’s Car Share has been namedbest comedy at the National Television Awards.

Radio 4 has commissioneda third series of Little Lifetimes monologues from Jenny Eclair.

BBC Two has officially confirmed thatBoy Meets Girls will be returning for a second series later this year – and Citizen Khan is to return for a fifth series.

Catherine Tate is to star in a new comic musical, set in America’s atomic age.

Here are all the winners of this year's Midlands Comedy Awards.

The cast has been announced for thethird series of Inside No 9, while the first stars have been named for the new episodes of Black Mirror to be made for Netflix.

The BBC is to air ANOTHERtribute to Peter Kay’s comedy career - this one spanning six half-hour episodes.

Anda comedy musical about Jeremy Corbyn  is to hit London later this year.