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Russell Howard, Harry Hill, Noel Fielding and more in this week's Chortle Digest

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Russell Howard, Harry Hill, Noel Fielding and more in this week's Chortle Digest
No 725
April 8, 2016

 
Russell Howard is making a US road trip show – accompanied by his mother, Ninette.

 Harry Hill is to front a new series for Sky 1 that’s part chat show and part fake cookery programme.

Noel Fielding is to take over from Sarah Millican as the curator on the next series of Radio 4’s Museum of Curiosity.

Sky 1 has cancelled its music quiz Bring The Noise, with Katherine Ryan and Joel Dommett.

A comedian could be jailed for insulting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan... in Germany.

Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have announced a new batch of shows in their Poignant Moment tour.

Satirical puppet series Newzoids is returning for a second series ITV has confirmed.

Comedy producer Henry Normal is to leave Baby Cow, the company he founded with Steve Coogan 17 years ago, as he returns to performing.

 Irish comedian Dave McSavage is refusing to pay his licence fee because he says the comedy put out by state broadcaster RTE is so terrible, he'd rather go to jail than fund more.

 Richard Herring has raised more than £100,000 from his fans to make a professional-quality comedy series for the internet.

The BBC has commissioned not one, but two more series of Cuckoo.

The line-up of guest comics for the second series of Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central  has been announced.

Miranda Hart is to return to Call The Midwife.

Ardal O'Hanlon has shot a pilot for a new ITV family sitcom.

And  five of the stars of Green Wing have joined striking junior doctors at the hospital where the cult comedy was filmed.

 

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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 more than 5,000 live comedy events.



Win both series of Alan Partridge Mid Morning Matters on DVD

 
The new Netflix documentary Hannibal Takes Edinburgh.

 Loads of reviews from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, including Zoe Coombs Marr,  Sammy J, Hannah Gadsby, Celia Pacquola  and 
many more... Here's the full list



'Darkness really complements comedy': Olivia Colman talks about her new C4 show Flowers

Videos from the Melbourne festival, including Brits Tim Vine, Sarah Pascoe, Nish Kumar, Mae Martin, Carl Donnelly and Larry Dean.

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


'I'll get further in comedy if I lose four stone': Ariane Sherine starts a series of updates from the comedy circuit.

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