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chortle digest: comedy slated, comes to and comeback
No 784
June 16, 2017
   


The BBC is weak on comedy and fails to take enough risks, viewers say.

Jim Jefferies’s new Comedy Central show is coming to the UK 

Tony Slattery is making a career comeback at the Edinburgh Fringe, returning to Whose Line Is It Anyway?

A huge comedy benefit has been announced for victims of the Grenfell Tower fire with Michael McIntyre, Alan Carr, Micky Flanagan and more.

Paul Merton says he has no interest in taking over as chairman of Just A Minute when Nicholas Parsons steps aside​

A novel based on a single fictional stand-up set has won this year's Man Booker International Prize​

Jack Whitehall is to be one of the guest presenters of Channel 4’s new topical improvised sketch show Host The Week.

Daliso Chaponda has landed his first Radio 4 show –  just days after appearing in the Britain’s Got Talent final.

Nish Kumar, Sally Phillips Bob Mortimer, Aisling Bea and Mark Watson are to be the contestants on the next series of Taskmaster.

Black Mirror is to become a series of books.

Armando Iannucci has started work on his adaptation of David Copperfield.

Michael Palin has donated more than 50 notebooks to the British Library.

Lindsay Lohan has joined Rupert Grint and Nick Frost in the Sky comedy Sick Note.

Comic author Kathy Lette is to embark on her first live comedy tour.


Good Grief! How Jack Rooke –  and his nan – made a tragi-comedy

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Live:
Ricky Gervais's Humanity tour

Improv format Suki Webster's Guest Speaker
Heroes of Fringe: Launch Show
Reggie Watts at the Shepherds Bush Empire

Radio
The Damian Slash Mixtape

Movie
Dying Laughing - in which comics share their stories


Online:
A huge dump of comedy videos from Turtle Canyon Comedy


Fast Fringe is at London's Leicester Square Theatre a week on Sunday  featuring 28 of the best Edinburgh-bound acts including  Late Night Gimp Fight, Jonny Awsum, Dominic Holland and SO 

many more – a fine sample of the best of the fest in one packed night

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line-up
and to get tickets.


British people try things for the first time, things you wouldn't hear on a nature show,  Daniel Simonsen tries to prove his life is exciting... among many others

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