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Whoop! Whoop! It's Sara's Gloop (www.chortle.co.uk)

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The week's best live comedy

A good deal from Rosie Jones (www.chortle.co.uk)

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The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming

Not Going Out returns for series 14 (www.chortle.co.uk)

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The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand

Let's mention Minchin... (www.chortle.co.uk)

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The week's best live comedy

Hostages to misfortune (www.chortle.co.uk)

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‘There’s no chance an American will laugh’: Tim Key on his very British new film and the US Office sequel (www.theguardian.com)

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The idiosyncratic comic’s sprawling CV includes poetry, Alan Partridge and a spell in a pigeon costume but his latest career destination might be his most unlikely yet – Hollywood

Keeping Rik Mayall's flame burning... (www.chortle.co.uk)

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The week's best live comedy

The Power Of Parker returns (www.chortle.co.uk)

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BBC commissions new Mackenzie Crook comedy Small Prophets (w/t) (www.bbc.co.uk)

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New six-part series is filmed and set in and around Manchester

Gavin & Stacey's Rob Brydon lands new BBC sitcom Bill's Included (www.radiotimes.com)

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The series is penned by comedy duo Alexander Owen and Ben Ashenden.

Diane Morgan sitcom Ann Droid coming to BBC One (www.comedy.co.uk)

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Diane Morgan has co-written and will take the title role in new sitcom Ann Droid.

Written with Sarah Kendall, the comedy sees Morgan play a humanoid robot assistant to an elderly widow in what the BBC calls a "buddy comedy with a difference".

Not Going Out officially renewed and will return with episode 101 – including another time jump (www.radiotimes.com)

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There's plenty more Not Going Out coming to our screens.

The Horne Section TV Show returns (www.chortle.co.uk)

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The Americans are coming... (www.chortle.co.uk)

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Chelsea Handler, Patton Oswalt, Josh Johnson and the rest of the week's live comedy picks

Flight Of The Conchords are back... for a moment (www.chortle.co.uk)

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Flight Of The Conchords are making a comeback 15 years after their HBO series ended – but only for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo.

Alex Horne has revealed that Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement – aka New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-comedy duo, below – will be making the briefest of appearances in the second series of The Horne Section TV show, which starts next week.