Chortle digest: QI's 'elves', Mitchell & Webb, Sara Pascoe & More

No 728
April 29, 2016

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 13,000 live comedy events.

The QI researchers behind the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast are to launch their own topical BBC Two show, No Such Thing As The News

David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s new comedy Back will be set around a pub, it has been revealed.

Romesh Ranganathan is to write his memoirs.

Stephen Merchant is joining the cast of Wolverine 3.

Ronald Reagan’s children have blasted Will Ferrell over his plans to make a comedy about their father succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease

....and another comic is under fire for making 'retard' jokes.

Frank Skinner has spoken about his years as an alcoholic – confessing that he used to hallucinate spiders and suffer temporary blindness from drinking too much.

The BBC’s most senior comedy production executive has dramatically announced that he is to quit the corporation.

....while producer Alex Moody has joined the BBC as a commissioner.

Barry Howard, who was best known for playing Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in Hi-de-Hi!, has died at the age of 78.

Friends star Courteney Cox is developing a new sitcom for ITV.

Catherine Tate has announced her first tour

And the line-up for the third series of Taskmaster has been revealed.

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Johnny Vegas talks about his role in Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories, coming soon to Sky1

Craig Cash and others talk about Sky1's new comedy series Rovers

Ten comedy actors who have been in Game Of Thrones

Ten comedians who have playedShakespearen roles

The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedian and actor Catherine Tate, will take The Catherine Tate Show - Live across the country this autumn, with a 21-date UK tour starting on 1 November. In never seen before sketches, the tour will unite some of Catherine's best-known characters from her hugely successful BBC series The Catherine Tate Show.

Guest starring Mathew Horne

Tickets: http://po.st/CathT16

Sara Pascoe's book Animal

Channel 4's new comedy series Flowers

Shitfaced Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Larry Grayson play Three Days And Three Minutes With Larry

On tour: Jonny & The Baptists: The End Is Nigh

Cassetteboy takes on Jeremy Hunt, the first trailers of both the Ab Fab movie and the forthcoming royal comedy The Windsors, and Andrew Maxwell at the Sydney Comedy Festival, many more.

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