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I'm Bruce Dessau and I run the comedy news/reviews website beyondthejoke.co.uk
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Saw this last week at Wilton's Music Hall. It's brilliant.

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Tour For Tim Key Show Loganberry
Actor, writer and comedian Tim Key is taking his smash-hit live show Loganberry across the UK and Ireland from February 2026. The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner is returning to the stage with this bran...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Sikisa To Release Comedy Special
Following an acclaimed and award-nominated Edinburgh run this year, Sikisa (Live at The Apollo, Off Menu, Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee) is releasing her first ever st...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Wells Comedy Festival Marks 10 Year Anniversary And Announces First Names
Somerset’s ‘weekend-long comedy jamboree’ (The Guardian) – celebrates it’s ten year anniversary festival over the May bank holiday in 2026. Many of the country’s top names in comedy will descend on En...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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BBC Reveals Christmas Comedy Schedule
The BBc has unveiled its Christmas comedy schedule offering a mixture of old favourites and new faces. There is a bumper selection of comedy to spread the joy. In Mammoth, it’s Tony Mammoth’s first Ch...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Debut Tour For Sophie Garrard
SOPHIE GARRAD is to set out on her first tour, following a successful Edinburgh Fringe. Sophie will embark on an initial nine dates across the UK with POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL, beginning at The Old Fire ...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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First Look At Adam Kay's Dexter Procter: The 10-Year-Old Doctor
A preview of Dexter Procter: The Ten-Year-Old Doctor has dropped on iPlayer. Audiences can finally get to see a sneak peek of the hilarious and heartwarming new CBBC series from bestselling author and...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Victoria Wood Musical Extends Run
FOURTEEN AGAIN has extended its run for a further week, with seven extra performances, at the newly named THE VICTORIA WOOD THEATRE in the Lake District’s Bowness-on-Windermere. FOURTEEN AGAIN will no...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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One ticket gets you two wank jokes.

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Adam Kay live: 'His kidney stone story has the men wincing in unison'
Adam Kay’s show at Soho Theatre is full of painfully funny stories about pain delivered with his customary ‘deadpan bedpan humor’
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November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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New Tour For James Acaster
Top-notch stand-up comedian James Acaster is going on tour againHis new UK tour follows a work-in-progress run followed by a North American tour in the Spring.UK dates start in Prescot at Shakespeare ...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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New Tour For Seann Walsh
Award-winning comedian and class clown Seann Walsh is back with a brand-new show ‘THIS IS TORTURE’ which will tour across the UK from February 2026 through to October 2026. Tickets are available now v...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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New Tour Dates For Bill Bailey
Having debuted the show to great success in New Zealand this autumn, Bill Bailey is to head out on a UK arena tour in 2026 with Vaudevillean, opening in Plymouth on November 6, 2026.Before streaming, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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"I get spotted a lot. My moustache is very distinctive. It’s like having a flashing beacon under my nose."

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Interview: Mike Bubbins And Sian Gibson Talk About The New Series Of Mammoth
Mammoth is back. The hit comedy about PE teacher Tony Mammoth, thought to have perished in an avalanche during a school trip in 1979 and getting a second chance at life, returns to BBC Two and iPlayer...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The British Comedian Behind The Wrexham Football Club Hollywood Takeover
In recent months there has been a lot of enjoyable press coverage about Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney taking over at Wrexham FC. What has been less reported, however, is the part pl...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Hence the victorian sideburns. #sundaybrunch

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Humphrey Ker, David Reed, John Kearns & Margaret Cabourn-Smith To Star In New Sherlock Holmes Play
Birmingham Rep has announced key casting news for the World Premiere of the play with songs, Sherlock Holmes and The Twelve Days of Christmas.Humphrey Ker and David Reed, the co-writers of the new com...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Rosalie Minnitt's Clementine Goes On Tour
Just in time for the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and following a dazzling run of sell-out shows and critical acclaim across two Edinburgh Fringe runs and four Soho Theatre residencies, R...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Dylan Moran, Ardal O'Hanlon, Grace Campbell, Christopher Hall, Elf Lyons, Anuvab Pal, Shabaz Al Play Major Fundraiser
Mick Perrin Worldwide proudly present an unmissable night of stand-up comedy, in aid of the international humanitarian charity Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF UK).‘Comedy Sans Fr...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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ITV Studios Launches The Spin Off Fronted by Russell Kane and Sian Welby
ITV Studio has launched a new free-to-play quiz game app ‘The Spin Off’ offering daily cash prizes and exclusive ITV show experiences, hosted by Russell Kane and Sian Welby.It is produced by top quiz ...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Brendan O'Carroll Stars In New Comedy Shedites By Paddy Houlihan
Filming has begun on BBC One’s brand new comedy special Shedites, created and written by Paddy Houlihan, set in and around the men’s shed in a village in Ireland. Made by BBC Studios Comedy and starri...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Peep Show Reunion For Bake Off
For the first time since Peep Show wrapped in 2015, fan favourites David Mitchell, Olivia Colman, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman reunite – and this time, they’re donning festive jumpers an...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Rosie Jones Stand-Up Show To Be Released
Rosie Jones’ acclaimed show Triple Threat is to be released through 800 Pound Gorilla Media on 8th December 2025.Filmed at Brighton Theatre Royal, the hit show sees Rosie pondering whether she is a na...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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BBC New Comedy Awards – Results
The BBC New Comedy Awards Grand Final has taken place at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre. And the winner is...Midlands comic Eli Hart.The night was hosted by Edinburgh Comedy Award 2024 winner Amy Gledhil...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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First Look At Dawn French Mark Heap Sitcom Can You Keep a Secret?
First look pictures have been released for Can You Keep a Secret?, the six-part sitcom starring Dawn French, Mark Heap, Craig Roberts and Mandip Gill, and written by Simon Mayhew-Archer, the producer ...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Bob Mortimer Dishes the Dirt On Dinner Parties & The Greatest Pie
This week's guest on the foodie podcast, Dish from Waitrose, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE, is comedian, writer and TV star Bob Mortimer, Bob talks about National Express coaches, ke...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Sometime I feel i should rename the comedy news section the Daily Romesh. beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1686...
Rob & Romesh Vs Returns And The Duo Take On Bollywood, Hip Hop, Shakespeare And The Sumatran Jungle
BAFTA-award winning Sky Original series Rob & Romesh Vs will return on 9 December to Sky and streaming service NOW. Watch Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan take on unexpected new challenges across th...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM