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Ricky Gervais donates £1.9m to animal charities | Proceeds from platinum tickets to his Armageddon tour
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The face that speaks for a nation... | Kiell Smith-Bynoe reacts to Mrs Brown's Boys NTA win
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Netflix buys Ricky Gervais's Humanity special | Biggest deal yet for a UK stand-up zpr.io/ntiFs
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Ricky Gervais returns to Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Jerry Seinfeld's guests also include Eddie Murphy zpr.io/gLfZf
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Ricky Gervais's Humanity named UK's top stand-up special | New research based on web searches zpr.io/HmCMF
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Ricky Gervais becomes highest paid British radio presenter | New deal with SiriusXM in the US zpr.io/ngQr3
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Ricky Gervais is given the Finger | Award for comedy that makes the world a better place. zpr.io/Hipb4
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Rhod Gilbert announces his first tour since cancer diagnoisis | 'It’s wonderful to be alive and going back on the road'
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Ricky Gervais sets an Italian record | Biggest show by an English language comedian
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Saturday catch-up: Netflix has bought Ricky Gervais’s next TV show - even though he hasn’t decided what it is yet. chortl.es/2Jm1UMf
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Raise a Toast – again! | Matt Berry's alter-ego set to return after five years - this time in America zpr.io/HLMCz
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24 minutes of filth! In tribute to I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue writer Iain Pattinson, who died at the weekend, here is every single one of the Lionel Blair jokes he wrote for Humphrey Lyttelton chortl.es/3b5O1eV
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Saturday catch-up: Ricky Gervais’s After Life has been named comedy of the year in the annual Comedy.co.uk awards. chortl.es/3b0ITZy
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Ricky Gervais to receive a Rose d'Or | Accolade for his performance in After Life zpr.io/tjrjd
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Aisling Bea to host Have I Got News For You | Her first ever appearance on the show zpr.io/R84ES
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Netflix buys Ricky Gervais's next stand-up special | Even though he hasn't performed it yet zpr.io/np5CV
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National Comedy Awards: After Life is a triple winner | Updates from the Channel 4 ceremony #NationalComedyAwards
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Netflix buys Ricky Gervais's next series | Even though he hasn't even thought of it yet... zpr.io/H4aAp
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Detectorists wins 2018 Rose d'Or | International TV honour for Mackenzie Crook's sitcom zpr.io/6bSsg
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Janey Godley dies at 63 | 'She will be remembered for her outspoken comedy... but mostly for just being Janey' tinyurl.com/29nwx3y8
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Mortimer & Whitehouse net another series of Gone Fishing | BBC Two orders six more episodes zpr.io/HmF6n
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Saturday catch-up: Jack Whitehall's Travels With My Father is returning for a third series on Netflix, chortl.es/2RO5NMN
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The world told Janey Godley to stay small - she did the opposite | Ashley Storrie's eulogy as her mother is laid to rest
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Rhod Gilbert: I have stage 4 cancer but I’m feeling happy, positive and optimistic | ‘I’ve got a feeling when I’ve got through all this there’ll be a show in it.’
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Sue Perkins named as new Just A Minute host | 'Nicholas Parson’s shoes are way too big to fill' zpr.io/jUET9BzqZRzA
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Philomena Cunk's back! | Diane Morgan's character returns for a round-up of 2019 zpr.io/tTXNY
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Saturday catch-up: Flight of the Conchords are to release a new album, Live In London – hear a couple of tracks here chortl.es/2RRonDO
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Crowds bid farewell to Janey Godley | Fans lined the streets of Edinburgh ahead of today's funeral tinyurl.com/22v5avef
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Ricky Gervais gets his Hollywood Walk of Fame star | As he claims 'we won' against cancel culture
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Detectorists to make a comedyback | Feature-length special to air later this year zpr.io/HYG3wevL5Ka8
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Ricky Gervais's After Life wins Netflix its first TV Choice Award | ...on the day filming starts on series 2 chortle.co.uk/news/2019/09/0…
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Saturday catch-up: Ricky Gervais’s Humanity has been named Britain’s favourite Netflix stand-up special. chortl.es/2HI3rLc
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Ricky Gervais gives £300k to charity | Proceeds from his tour's 'platinum seats' to beat the touts zpr.io/nu4z2
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Off Menu hits 50million downloads... as Ed Gamble and James Acaster tape 100th episode chortl.es/3avfLdw
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Saturday catch-up: Netflix has won its first TV Choice award – thanks to Ricky Gervais's After Life chortl.es/2QiSO5k
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Remembering Victoria Wood on her 70th birthday | The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
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From one punter to sold out in 24 hours... | Georgie Grier's Fringe fortunes reversed, thanks to Dara O Brian and Jason Manford
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Chris Morris returns to satirising the war on terror | The Day Shall Come coming soon chortle.co.uk/news/2019/01/1…
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ICYMI: James Acaster joins Ghostbusters | Comic cast in new blockbuster
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'He knew funny better than anyone' | Tributes after stand-up comedy director Paul Byrne dies at 45 zpr.io/4457esJR6PtA
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Ricky Gervais’s wealth grows by £10m | According to new accounts from his companies
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Kylie Minogue to appear with the Ghosts | ...for a long-delayed Comic Relief sketch
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Ricky Gervais sets a French record | ...for the biggest audience for a comedy show in English
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First look at Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | With Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith and Diane Morgan among the cast
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Some great pictures of @rickygervais @adamhillscomedy @timminchin @simonpegg @stephenfry and more here... zpr.io/PJJNM
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Channel 4 confirms second series of This Way Up | Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan to return zpr.io/HkWVr
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Remembering Linda Smith | A dozen of her best jokes on what would have been her 60th birthday zpr.io/gf5Xa
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Let's get Bill Bailey to represent the UK at Eurovision | Petition launched after another dismal result zpr.io/Rw6Gf
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News: @MoTheComedian and @bignarstie pilot Channel 4 comedy entertainment show chortl.es/2EzTlqh
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Netflix to release 47 comedy specials on one day | ...including these four UK based comics zpr.io/6TB9c
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Saturday catch-up: Ricky Gervais has announced the title of his next world tour and Netflix special: Mortality. tinyurl.com/2hzqs3o4
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The Stand comedy clubs 'on the brink of collapse' | Venues make urgent plea for arts funding zpr.io/HspJN
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Video: Watch this Muslim comedian (@Zafarcakes) take on the Islamophobic trolls chortl.es/2ba1wef
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What should we call Dame Judi Dench's vagina? @rickygervais reveals his weird debate with Golden Globes lawyers chortl.es/3fp2Nyw
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James Acaster wins Melbourne festival award | First Brit to take the prize in nine years zpr.io/g9ZPr
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Ricky Gervais has announced two London dates next month: Nov 3 and 10 at the Forum. Tickets on sale at 10am: chortle.co.uk/comics/r/457/r…
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Ricky Gervais announces first dates in Mortality tour | Show will also become a Netflix stand-up special
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Mock The Week to end after 17 years | 'The UK has finally run out of news' says Dara O Briain zpr.io/FWEZr784jQjn
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Saturday catch-up: Ricky Gervais has set an attendance record for the biggest English-speaking comedy show in France. dlvr.it/TJXVrv
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How much do you know about Ricky Gervais's Derek | Try our Tuesday Trivia Quiz
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BBC pilots 'anti-woke' comedy show | Unsafe Space 'brings diversity of opinion to Radio 4' zpr.io/fEQBTztDFQF5
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New sitcom for Joe Wilkinson and Diane Morgan | Cast also includes Sue Johnston, Bobby Ball, Nigel Havers and Kim Cattrall zpr.io/grt6k
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Who's in Taskmaster series 16? | Next batch of contestants revealed
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'Unimaginable opportunities will arise because you decided to create something' | John Robins' uplifting speech at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards
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Filming starts on Here We Go series 3 | Tom Basden’s BBC One family sitcom to return
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Do you know Ghosts as well as Mastermind's expert? | Student Holly Franklin made BBC sitcom her specialist subject zpr.io/9vF7XvysF2PW
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'If there were four ways of fucking up a task, I found five' | Kiell Smith-Bynoe on appearing in Taskmaster
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Another League Of Gentlemen reunion... of sorts | Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton join Reece Shearsmith in Good Omens zpr.io/naE9a
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Cast named for @rickygervais Netflix series After Life... With 'the best of the new breed of great British comedy talent' zpr.io/6snJ6
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Meet the BBC's newest radio comedy writers | Eve Delaney and Ruth Huskisson follow in prestigious footsteps
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Aziz Ansari's Master Of None to return | EXCLUSIVE: Season three to be shot in London zpr.io/HVBFu
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BBC made Russell Howard rewrite a joke – in case it offended Isis | Comic reveals a bizarre bit of political correctness zpr.io/gR9um
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Not a mourning person... | Mark Watson does his show in the street after venue closes out of respect for the Queen zpr.io/B3Qdfw7a85rx
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Stephen Fry reunites with the QI team | For an episode of the researchers' No Such Thing As A Fish podcast chortle.co.uk/news/2018/11/1…
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David O’Doherty's two-wheeled talk show | Comic combines cycling and chat in new Channel 4 series zpr.io/CjPG3LiFN2pu
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Saturday catch-up: Ricky Gervais announced the first set of UK dates for his new stand-up show Mortality (now sold out) – which will also be filmed as a Netflix special. tinyurl.com/26v7jctc
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Live gigs for Dear Joan and Jericha duo | Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine to appear in character zpr.io/HybJ5
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Ricky Gervais joins top ten best-paid comedians list | Stand-up pocketed $25million, say Forbes chortle.co.uk/news/2018/12/2…
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People said, ‘you’re going to be shocked by how fanciable Greg Davies is.' They weren’t lying. | Mae Martin on doing Taskmaster
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Club bans a white comedian because he has dreadlocks | Venue 'will not tolerate' cultural appropriation chortle.co.uk/news/2019/01/1…
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Covid silences Mrs Brown | Chat show cancelled this year because of coronavirus zpr.io/R5sLM
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Comedians join Ricky Gervais's After Life | Kerry Godliman, Diane Morgan and more in Netflix series zpr.io/neV7v
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'When you are born incompetent, competitiveness is beaten out of you' | Mike Wozniak and Judi Love do Bake Off
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Book deal for Elis James and John Robins | The Holy Vible to be published this autumn zpr.io/nM7L9
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Martin Freeman set to star in new TV comedy | Pilot for Breeders has been filmed zpr.io/nx8Dk
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Revealed: The comedy clubs that book six times as many men. as women | Lucy Beamont was right! Our analysis reveals the depth of gender imbalance on the circuit
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Meet our first Legends Of Lockdown | Marcus Brigstocke and Rachel Parris are Chortle Award winners! zpr.io/RjEde
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Revealed: The comedians signed up to GB News | Roster of 13 stand-ups for newspaper preview show Headliners zpr.io/B76UvvyTbiS5
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