Brown, Simonsen, Tapeface and Goldsmith get the gongs: the last 96 hours in comedy

Fringe ticket sales were down one per cent over the festival, but picked up strongly after the Olympics were finished. SSP

 

Good-for-nothing Brits: Doctor Brown has won the Edinburgh Comedy Award; Daniel Simonsen won best newcomer; the Boy with Tape on His Face won the panel prize. Comedy Awards

 

Stuart Goldsmith won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for betting critics wouldn’t be able to resist taking the mick out of his show title, Prick. Is that over yet? I have a box of puns I want to break out. BBC

 

There’s a Horrible Histories film in the pipeline. Broadcast

 

The diplomat Craig Murray has suggested there might be an ‘infringement’ issue with Mitchell and Webb’s new sitcom, which he says sounds rather a lot like his book. Astounding line of the story: ‘Murray, 53, who married his Uzbek lap dancer, stood for Parliament on a human rights platform and is one of Julian Assange's most prominent supporters.’ Incredible. Independent

 

More BBC commissions: David Walliams and Ben Elton each have new series. Elton’s is about a health and safety officer. If Vic Reeves struggled to make that idea work, why on Earth does anyone thing Elton can do it? Mirror

 

Stella on Sky has been renewed for a third season. BCG

 

Comedy Central have a new comedy with Blake Harrison out of the Inbetweeners, and Seann Walsh out of panel shows. Chortle 

 

Rhys Thomas has made a documentary about Freddie Mercury, for some reason. The Velvet Onion

 

Janey Godley has set a new gold standard for writing up a train journey, carefully documenting the tale of Freya and Tim’s ‘shit cock’. Janey Godley

 

Adam Hills gets on the campaign trail for his nightly Paralympics show, saying “it's funny to walk into a room full of disabled people”. It seems a safe bet he’s going to nail it. Guardian

 

Frankie Boyle did the Q&A in the Guardian Weekend on Saturday, which is fascinating to read and see just how misjudged his pitch is. Guardian

 

And if you want to put off starting work for a few more minutes, you might as well sit back and watch the return of the Flight of the Conchords, of a sort.

 

 

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