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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Terry Alderton's radio show All Crazy Now

Limmy's book Daft Wee Stories

Muslim-Jewish sketch show Come In! Sit Down!

'I used to be straightforward kinda mental' : An interview with Limmy

Some previews of Edinburgh shows:
10 award winners
10 Americans
10 shows about gender
10 tributes to dead comedians
10 comedians from elsewhere in the EU

Magic critics: Don't get up to your usual tricks

So you're pro-gay rights? That's so hack...

It's harder being a woman in improv

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Watch the trailer for Entertainment, the movie inspired by the desperate stand-up of Neil Hamburger, among many more

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