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The BBC has released new pictures from the brand-new series of comedy-thriller The Outlaws, from creator, star, and award-winning writer and director Stephen Merchant, ahead of its return to BBC One and BBC iPlayer next month.

Stewart Lee is to tour a new show titled Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf.

Beginning with a run at Leicester Square Theatre in December 2024, the show will then tour the UK across 2025.

The blurb explains: "In this brand new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of North America who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee's unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up?

"Stewart Lee ("the world's greatest living stand-up comedian" The Times), is in danger of being left behind. He's approaching sixty with debilitating health conditions, his TV profile has diminished, and his once BAFTA award-winning style of stand-up seems obsolete in the face of a wave of callous Netflix-endorsed comedy of anger, monetising the denigration of minorities for millions of dollars. But can Lee unleash his inner Man-Wulf to position himself alongside comedy legends like Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and Jordan Peterson at the forefront of side-splitting stadium- stuffing shit-posting?"

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In the first episode of his new Channel 4 show, Lycett said four stories that were covered by newspapers and television news were fabricated.

Speaking on Late Night Lycett on Friday evening, he said the fake stories were: a five-a-side footballer from Birmingham having a bruise on his thigh that resembled Prince Harry’s face, research showing men from Birmingham have the longest penises in the UK, a mural of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in Birmingham that was declared to be a Banksy, and a statue of H from Steps being erected in Cowbridge.

Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont have announced their separation.

The couple have an eight-year-old daughter, Elsie, and the news comes a week after the fifth season of their mockumentary Meet The Richardsons began on Dave.

They have also hosted the panel show Odd Couples on Channel 4 and made numerous TV appearances together on shows such as 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

In a statement they both posted on social media they said: 'After nine years of marriage we would like to announce that we have separated.

'We have jointly and amicably made the difficult decision to divorce and go our separate ways.

'As our only priority is managing this difficult transition for our daughter, we would ask that our privacy is respected at this sensitive time to protect her well-being.

''We will be making no further comment.'

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Comedian Harry Deansway’s infringement case against Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow is going to trial, Variety can confirm.

Numerous attempts to reach an out of court settlement collapsed and a trial date has been tentatively set for Oct. 2024.

Deansway, whose real name is Joshua Rinkoff, filed suit against Baby Cow last year in the U.K. High Court, claiming that the prodco’s head of comedy Rupert Majendie had copied the format of his YouTube show “Shambles” to develop the stand-up series “Live at the Moth Club.”

Majendie is the creator of “Live at the Moth Club,” which aired on UKTV in December 2022, and is also credited as an executive producer and director.

“It is extremely disappointing that my friend Rupert Majendie, head of comedy at Steve Coogan’s Baby Cow should have copied my original work like this without so much as courtesy call,” Deansway told Variety in a statement. “That it was done by a friend and collaborator in the industry is just deeply saddening. What makes it so much worse is that by standing up for my principles I am having to go head to head with every comedian’s comic idol Steve Coogan, I can’t help wondering how he would have felt if someone had copied one of his early characters when he was just starting out and then tried to allege that this was perfectly legal. I’ve been shocked and appalled by Baby Cow’s strategy of denial when in my opinion the the show has been so obviously copied.”

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The production company, which Coogan set up with producer Henry Normal in 1999, is also currently defending another lawsuit brought by historian Richard Taylor. Taylor is suing Baby Cow, Coogan and Pathe Productions over what he claims is an unflattering depiction of him in 2022 film “The Lost King.”

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The best of the week's live comedy

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

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

The best of the week's live comedy

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

The best of the week's live comedy