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Stephen Fry praises King Charles for cancer announcement

Stephen Fry has praised King Charles for sharing his cancer diagnosis, calling his openness "marvellous".

Germany's Henning Wehn revels in King Charles's comedy shout-out

Henning Wehn delighted in a royal shout-out on Thursday as Britain's King Charles III paid tribute to the UK's cultural links with Germany. In a light-hearted segment of his speech to the German parliament, the king saluted Wehn as "Germany's comedy ambassador".

Prince Charles may fancy a break with the Duchess of Cornwall for his 70th birthday, but instead he has been gifted a night of comedy and magic to raise money for the Prince's Trust. Armstrong and Miller host proceedings, with the magicians Penn & Teller and Dynamo on the bill. Rowan Atkinson, Sandi Toksvig, Cheryl Tweedy and Kylie also appear.

Why can't the BBC do good comedy anymore? Recently we've had truly awful things such as Citizen Khan, Mrs Brown's Boys and, currently showing, the embarrassing Mountain Goats. The last time the BBC managed to provoke a laugh from me was with Murder In Successville on BBC3, a channel soon to be shoved online only.

And there were laughs in the one-off special of Burnistoun, but this was shown in Scotland only. When it comes to the BBC's mainstream, UK-wide comedy, where oh where is the good stuff?

Maybe they feel this terrible dearth of excellent comedy, as they're giving us a reunion show with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse looking back - yes, looking back - to the good old days.

The programme puts Enfield and Whitehouse on stage together in front of an admiring crowd and parodies the An Audience With... shows, but the nice twist is that when we flash to shots of the audience we see Enfield and Whitehouse in the crowd, dressed up as various famous people, and asking cheeky questions. Jimmy Carr, Harry Hill, Ricky Gervais and Prince Charles are all gloriously ridiculed and in between we have great clips of the comedy pair's old shows.

Stephen Fry considers Prince Charles' drug response

Stephen Fry has spoken again about his admission that he took cocaine whilst inside Buckingham Palace and has admitted, not all too unreasonably, that Prince Charles wouldn't be pleased with the revelation.

Prince Charles asked Eric Idle to be his jester

Not long ago, at Billy Connolly's house in Scotland, Prince Charles gave Eric Idle offer he could refuse. "He said, 'Would you be my jester?' " Idle recalled. "I said, 'Why would I want a fucking shit job like that?'"