Comedy news from the Edinburgh Fringe

Comedy news from the Edinburgh Fringe – and beyond

No 692
August 14, 2015

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

As always check Chortle.co.uk for more on these stories as well as listings of thousands of live comedy events.

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Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey in On the Buses, has died aged 88.

The BBC has axed Paul Whitehouse's TV comedy-drama Nurse.

Comedians have launched a public campaign to persuade the Arts Council to relax its blanket ban on funding comedy.

Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker’s script about The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Townis to receive its stage premiere.... as is a play based on Meera Syal's novel Anita and Me.

Brett Goldstein’s film SuperBob is to get a cinema release.

Friends repeats will remain a mainstay of the Comedy Central channel for the next four years after the broadcastersigned a deal renewing its exclusive rights.

Improvised comedy musical troupe Showstopper! have landed their first full West End run.

The Pleasance Dome could be demolished within two years, changing the landscape of the Edinburgh Fringe.

And a forgotten TV drama in which Rik Mayall played a racist cop is to be released on DVD on Monday

Far too many Edinburgh shows to list here - for the full list click here.

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If Katie Hopkins is in, then I’m out'... Chris Ramsey on taking part in Channel 4's Time Crashers.

We've been running a 'top ten' feature every day of the Fringe. Here are the last five (and all of them arehere)

Ten scientific facts you didn't realised applied to the Fringe
Ten ways to schmooze like a failure
My ten worst fringe experiences
T en things Fringe performers say after sex
T en signs you've been to too many Fringes.

And the same for Perfect Playlists (full listhere)
Ari Shaffir
Tiernan Douieb
Markus Birdman
George Egg
Darren Walsh

Fear is comedy's greatest motor

Funding the funny...

Being called out for your sexism is not censorship

Comedy should be a regulation-free zone

The 'easily offended' are silencing today's Lenny Bruces

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The trailer for the new Dad's Army film, plus loads of clips from our Fast Fringe including Tiff Stevenson, Spenceer Jones as The Herbert, Beth Vyse and Dane Baptiste,

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

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