Chortle Digest: Brawl breaks out in comedy club 🚓, Ruth Jones becomes a novelist 📕 and reviews from Melbourne 🌏

No 724
April 1, 2016

No fooling. Welcome to your weekly round-up of all the comedy news, reviews and features a full day early! As always check Chortle.co.uk for more on these stories as well as listings of around 3,500 live comedy events.

Police were called after a brawl broke out in a comedy club when a heckler challenged comic Roger Monkhouse for telling risque jokes.

Meanwhile a comedy gig about free speech has been sabotaged – by protestors angry at stand-up Kate Smurthwaite's views.

Ruth Jones is to release two novels, after a fierce bidding war between publishers.

Alan’s Partridge’s is to make a one-hour 'state of the nation' mockumentary for Sky Atlantic.

Barry Humphries is to front a three-part Channel 4 show about ageing.

Drifters is to return for a fourth series, creator Jessica Knappett has revealed.

Jessica Hynes is to star in a new comedy show with viral stars Jack and Dean.

The full cast has been announced for the reboot of Porridge, including Catastrophe's Mark Bonnar as a wily Scottish prison guard – and for another batch of the BBC's sitcom reboots.

Tracey Ullman is to become the 100th guest host of Have I Got News For You.

The next series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror will premiere on Netflix in the UK, after Channel 4 lost the rights.

And two comedy writers have been threatened with legal action from the producers of hit podcast Serial – in a dispute over the trademark on the letter 'S'.

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