Comedian Maddy Anholt is the new Women's Aid ambassador for Love Respect, a website to support teenage girls at risk of relationship abuse and to challenge myths surrounding coercive control and abuse.
Mel & Sue are planning to return to live comedy as a double act, Giedroyc has revealed. She said: "The last conversation that Sue and I had a few days ago, we ended up saying, 'When the Edinburgh Festival's back on again, shall we do it?'".
Ricky Gervais is launching a new podcast about "being human". Absolutely Mental will feature the comic in conversation with American neuroscientist Sam Harris.
Stand-up comedian Lee Ridley is getting a new voice, after a competition to find him a genuine Geordie accent. Actor and voiceover artist Dan Pye will now provide the voice for Ridley's communication aid.
Sitcom writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are publishing a comedy writing guide, collecting together scripts from pilot episodes of their most celebrated shows, with essays on each.
Award-winning comedian Leo Kearse is to stand for election to the Scottish Parliament in Glasgow, in protest at the SNP's "vague" and "authoritarian" Hate Crime Bill.
Stand-up comedian Andrew Doyle is joining GB News, a new TV news channel that launches later this year. He will present a weekly show titled Free Speech Nation.
