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‘Lost’ episodes of At Last the 1948 Show rediscovered

23 Oct 2014: BFI announces two almost complete episodes of TV programme featuring John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman and Tim Brooke-Taylor found in archive of David Frost
Natasia Demetriou – comedy's most nervous standup?

22 Oct 2014: In a show inspired by men she met on Tinder, with supporting roles for her family and her dog, the Invisible Dot’s Natasia Demetriou elevates her anxieties to an art form, writes Ryan Gilbey
Barry Humphries and Barry Spurr are a comedy double act no one needs

22 Oct 2014: How can Barry Humphries support freedom of speech for Barry Spurr when censorship is just fine for his international cabaret festival? Maeve Marsden withdraws her application
Melbourne festival 2014: the Aussie Rules of circus – video

Video (6min 06sec), 22 Oct 2014:
Circus dominates at this year's Melbourne festival, but there's no big top, tiger or ringmaster in sight. Nancy Groves reports
Leslie Jones: brash, outrageous and great for SNL

21 Oct 2014: For the first time in its 40-year-history, the Saturday Night Live cast includes two black women
Dear White People: satire with bite but a fractured funny bone

21 Oct 2014:
Justin Simien’s satire offers up familiar stereotypes: black separatists, white-wannabes and liberals in denial. It’s when we don’t fit into any of them that the real race confusion starts
Noel Fielding review – solo standup set is a holiday from reality

21 Oct 2014: Infuriating, mildly amusing and then wonderfully unforeseen, the Mighty Boosh man’s show features some reality-busting set-pieces, writes Brian Logan
Giving away comedians’ jokes is no laughing matter

21 Oct 2014: Publishing standups’ one-liners is cheap clickbait that does comedians – and their gags – no favours, writes Brian Logan
How we made ... Calendar Girls

21 Oct 2014: Celia Imrie: ‘I’m used to being called Biggers Buns’
Radio 4 executive behind Little Britain to leave BBC after more than 30 years

20 Oct 2014: Caroline Raphael leaves position as commissioning editor after cost-saving restructure reduces post to three days a week role. By John Plunkett
Lee Mack review – latterday Eric Morecambe is gloriously daft

20 Oct 2014: This is comedy that time forgot – meticulous, gag-heavy tomfoolery with a great sense of attack, writes Brian Logan
I'd been unemployed for a year … so I formed a band, of course

20 Oct 2014: What’s a 34-year-old single mum on benefits meant to do when else fails? Pursue the most unrealistic career path imaginable!
Ade Edmondson: ‘I never laughed as hard as I did with Rik’

19 Oct 2014: Ahead of a West End run, Ade Edmondson reflects on his life and work, and on the recent deaths of three close friends, including Young Ones co-star Rik Mayall. By Elizabeth Day
Sara Pascoe: ‘Female sexuality is an active thing’

19 Oct 2014: The Edinburgh comedy award nominee and TV regular talks to Stephanie Merritt about monogamy being unnatural and Page 3 becoming mandatory
BBC’s Getting On creators take lead with new series Puppy Love

17 Oct 2014: Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine turn to more upbeat subject-matter with their new comedy set in a dog training class. By Jason Deans