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Special Comic Strip screening and talk to be held
Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Mangan are set to appear at a special screening of two Comic Strip films in March.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th February 2024Red Nose Day 2024 to include Alan Partridge and The Traitors
Details of this year's Comic Relief telethon have been revealed, including a headline sketch spoofing The Traitors and the return of Alan Partridge to BBC One.
British Comedy Guide, 28th February 2024Comedy.co.uk Awards 2023 winners
Ghosts, Queen Of Oz, Taskmaster, Horrible Histories, Would I Lie To You?, Good Omens, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?, Dead Ringers, The Unbelievable Truth and You're Dead To Me are the winners in the public-voted Comedy.co.uk Awards for 2023.
British Comedy Guide, 12th February 2024The Masked Singer's Bubble Tea is unveiled as Ab Fab's Julia Sawalha
Julia Sawalha was unveiled as Bubble Tea during Saturday's episode of The Masked Singer UK. The moment left guest panellist Jennifer Saunders - who was standing in for Rita Ora - stunned as she had no idea Julia was behind the mask.
Daily Mail, 20th January 2024French and Saunders almost died after poisoning horror while filming
Dawn - one half of comedy duo French and Saunders - says the pair were filming for a Comic Strip movie in Spain when a faulty boiler almost killed them as they slept.
Mark Jefferies, The Mirror, 25th October 2023Sumotherhood review
An entertaining shambles - with a deranged Ed Sheeran cameo.
Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 12th October 2023Sumotherhood review
Jeremy Corbyn (briefly) turns movie star in this overstuffed spoof.
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 12th October 2023Sumotherhood review
Adam Deacon's Avuvahood follow-up falls flat.
Victoria Luxford, City AM, 12th October 2023Behind the scenes on Brit action-comedy Sumotherhood
The follow-up to 2011 goofball gang drama parody Anuvahood, it's taken years of perseverance and the goodwill of the UK's entertainment industry to get Adam Deacon's latest film on screens. And now that he's conquered his demons, he's ready to make us laugh at them.
Olive Pometsey, The Face, 10th October 2023Jennifer Saunders revealed as Rita Ora's Masked Singer replacement
Jennifer Saunders will fill in for Rita Ora on The Masked Singer, the Sun can exclusively reveal. Singing sensation Rita, 33, has had to pull out of some episodes of the upcoming season due to work commitments.
Issy Sampson, The Sun, 3rd October 2023