This week's comedy news, reviews and features

No 691
July 31, 2015

It's the last round-up of comedy news before the Edinburgh Fringe...Hope you're ready.

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Netflix could move into commissioning British comedy by picking up axed ITV sitcom The Delivery Man.

...it has also announced a third season of animated comedy Bojack Horseman this week.

American chat show host Conan O'Brien is being sued for alleged joke theft.

Comedy writer and produced Jim Pullin has died at 75.

Stephen Merchant's West End debut, The Mentalists, is to close a month early.

Shappi Khorsandi has signed a book deal for her first novel.

The Rubberbandits are to provide an ‘anarchic’ commentary to a new game show launching later this year.

Some of the narrators of the next series of Crackanory have been named.

The producer behind Vic & Bob’s House Of Fools is to take the wheel of Top Gear.

And comedy ventriloquist Paul Zerdin has become the second British entertainer to progress on America's Got Talent, thanks to a 'golden buzzer' intervention.

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10 Americans
10 shows about gender
10 tributes to dead comedians
10 comedians from elsewhere in the EU

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It's harder being a woman in improv

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