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Ruth Bratt joins The Comedy Store Players
Thursday 22nd February 2024
Improv group The Comedy Store Players are to be joined by a new core member for the first time in almost thirty years. Ruth Bratt will start performing at the weekly show from March.
Geoff Norcott to present 'Is University Really Worth It?' documentary
Wednesday 21st February 2024
Stand-up comedian Geoff Norcott will present Is University Really Worth It?, a BBC Two documentary looking at higher education.
Ewen MacIntosh: Big Keith from The Office dies aged 50
Wednesday 21st February 2024
Ewen MacIntosh, who starred as Big Keith in The Office, has died aged 50.
Terry Gilliam and Robert Lindsay get Slapstick Festival awards
Monday 19th February 2024
Monty Python star Terry Gilliam picked up the Aardman Slapstick Award for Visual Comedy whilst Robert Lindsay took home the Aardman Slapstick Comedy Legend Award.
Dad's Army legend Ian Lavender dies aged 77
Monday 5th February 2024
Ian Lavender, star of Dad's Army as the much-loved Private Pike, has died at the age of 77.
Steve Brown, the prolific comedy composer, has died
Saturday 3rd February 2024
Composer Steve Brown, who has worked with comedians including Harry Hill, has died of lung disease. TV viewers will remember him as Glenn Ponder from Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge.
Jamali Maddix to investigate cults in Dave series Follow The Leader
Thursday 18th January 2024
Dave series Follow The Leader With Jamali Maddix will see the comedian spending time with leaders and key figures in growing communities on the fringes of the mainstream to find out just why they inspire such devotion among their followers. The four-part series will investigate religious cults, political movements, underground radicals and ostracised groups.
Tom Wilkinson dies aged 75
Saturday 30th December 2023
Tom Wilkinson, who has starred in British comedy films such as The Full Monty, Shakespeare In Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, has died aged 75.
The Iceman to be celebrated in documentary film
Friday 22nd December 2023
Alternative comedy performer Anthony Irvine, AKA The Iceman, is to be the subject of a new documentary.
Alternative comedian Tony Allen dies aged 78
Saturday 2nd December 2023
Tony Allen, one of the founders of the alternative comedy movement, has died aged 78.