Bath Comedy Festival has awarded Julian Clary its Bath Plug Award for outstanding services to comedy. Meanwhile jazz pianist and singer Ian Shaw was presented with the inaugural OBP (Order of the Bath Plug) medal.
Yes Minister co-writer Jonathan Lynn has created a new stage play, I'm Sorry, Prime Minister, I Can't Quite Remember, featuring the sitcom's characters Jim Hacker and Humphrey Appleby.
Ed Gamble and James Acaster are taking their Off Menu podcast on a live tour in October and November 2023. Off Menu: Live will visit Birmingham, London, Bristol, Nottingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Brighton and Dublin.
Paul Merton is performing an hour-long stand-up show for the first time in more than 25 years, with two work-in-progress gigs at the Museum of Comedy in London. "Many people have no idea I used to do stand-up and I'm one of them" he said. "I thought I would return to stand-up while I could still stand."
