Bruce Dessau

For the first time ever on Blu-ray, two rare Monty Python episodes - recorded for German TV in 1972 - are presented in High Definition in a deluxe SteelBook for worldwide release. Beautifully packaged, using iconic original Terry Gilliam artwork and overseen by Gilliam himself, the release is extensively restored and packed with extras, a little-seen treasure showing the groundbreaking comedy team - Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin - at the peak of their creative powers.

I only know most comedians for what they do onstage. John Robins I know a little better. I played golf with him a few times in Edinburgh. He was a genial, skilful, competitive opponent. I think it was PG Wodehouse who said if you want to know a man's character play golf with him. But the John Robins revealed in Thirst is a very different animal altogether.

Wilton's Music Hall in London's still-shabby East End has always felt like a magical venue and in the last 15 months i've seen three truly magical shows there. Harry Hill, Tim Key and now the third in this triptych of three-in-a-million unique performers, John Kearns, who combines the vaudevillian sensibility of Hill with the poetic precision of Key.

Jamie-Lee O’Donnell (Derry Girls, Leonard and Hungry Paul) will star in Hopley Hall (w/t), a brand-new comedy created and written by Daniel Peak ( Not Going Out, Code 404 ) for BBC iPlayer, BBC One and BBC Northern Ireland.

Cracked, the US comedy magazinem, now runs a comedy club on YouTube, filming in New York and Los Angeles and spotlighting comedians in the USA. British comedian Stuart Laws has made his debut on the Cracked Comedy Club with a stand up set he taped at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival this year.

Channel 4 has now released the trailer for Make That Movie, a new six-episode comedy series starring Sam Campbell ( Taskmaster, Last One Laughing ).

Due to exceptional demand, extra dates have been added to Celebrity Traitor winner Alan Carr's latest tour.

BBC One and BBC iPlayer’s Pointless has unveiled a new line-up of celebrity co-hosts who will be joining host Alexander Armstrong on upcoming episodes of the show.

Mock the Week will return to free-to-air TLC TV channel on 7 June with an additional 5-episodes for a brand-new special series, just in time to mock the most sizzling of summers - hot with political chaos and the kick-off of the football World Cup stateside. Host Dara Ó Briain and his unfaithful sidekick, series regular Rhys James, will guide viewers through the complex and turbulent global news cycle, with the help of an all-star rotating panel of comedy guest-stars that include Maisie Adam, Ed Gamble, Sara Pascoe, Chris Ramsey and Russell Howard.

Life is never dull with Australian comedian Sam Campbell. At the press launch of his new comedy Make That Movie he explained that following Sam Mendes who was making biopics about all four Beatles, Campbell hoped to make films about every member of the London Symphony Orchestra. Earlier in the day, promoting his C4 series on local radio, he said the nearest comparison was Mr Bates and the Post Office. Of course it is nothing of the sort.