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TV tonight: our highlights for Friday, September 19, including Bake Off: An Extra Slice

Plus, Fawlty Towers The Play

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TV tonight: our highlights for Friday, September 12, including a new episode of Bake Off: An Extra Slice

There's also a Downton Abbey documentary to enjoy.

WhatToWatch

The left must learn to take (and make) a joke

Letters: Readers respond to an article by George Monbiot on how rightwing people and parties use humour to promote toxic ideas

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TV tonight: Rosie Jones’ cracking new comedy about drug dealing

The standup makes a smart dig at a broken system that undervalues disabled people. Plus: Heston Blumenthal’s documentary about bipolar disorder. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Zoe Wanamaker, Anita Rani and Jo Brand latest stars to support our winter appeal

A Place to Call Home is supporting refugees and people experiencing homelessness

Evening Standard

Great British Bake Off star apologises for joke called out by coeliac disease charity

‘I hold my hands up,’ said pastry chef Ravneet Gill

The Independent UK

Great British Bake Off’s Jeff mocks dramatically quitting the show after just two episodes

‘I’m done. Sorry, I’m out of here’, joked the Brooklyn native

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Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?

The Guardian - UK

Scientists and comedians join forces to get climate crisis message across

Video series launched in which comics translate climate science into down-to-earth language

The Guardian - UK

Climate scientist Mark Maslin: ‘We have all the technology we need to move to a cleaner, renewable world’

The professor of Earth system science on the hottest year on record, using humour – with a little help from Jo Brand – to get his message across, and why there are reasons to be positive

The Guardian - UK

The Piano at Christmas review – so moving it’s spine-tingling

The talent show’s festive edition is a generous-spirited joy, which catches up with past contestants and introduces celebrity guests. It warms the cockles of your heart

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: all the crispiest Bake Off bits

A look back on the puddings, cakes and cackles that made this series a blast. Plus: the Drag Race finale. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Feargal Sharkey praised for ‘powerful’ Israel-Palestine speech on Have I Got News for You

Comments made by the musician and activist, who grew up during the Troubles, are being lauded by panel show’s viewer as ‘eloquent’, ‘informed’ and ‘worth listening to’

The Independent UK

Have I Got News for You season 66: release date, guests, trailer and everything we know

Have I Got News for You season 66 sees Ian Hislop and Paul Merton return with their satirical comedy and an interesting array of presenters and guests.

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The Independent UK

Final farewell to Paul O’Grady as presenter is laid to rest in Kent

Presenter and drag icon was celebrated in his adopted hometown in Kent on the day of his funeral

Manchester Evening News

The Manchester pub where Johnny Vegas, Peter Kay and Jo Brand played lost to city centre development

The Ducie Bridge was at the heart of Manchester's thriving comedy and music scenes

Evening Standard

Mark Evans’ Bleak Expectations set to make West End debut – Stephen Fry, Jo Brand, Jack Dee, Lee Mack to star

A packed cast of guest stars are set to be joining the hilarious adaptation

Daily Mirror

Antiques Roadshow to air special to trace history of nursing amid strike action

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The National (Scotland)

How being a World Cup ball girl convinced Susie McCabe to chase her dreams

YOU’LL know her as the Glaswegian comedian going up and up in the world, supporting Kevin Bridges night after night at the Hydro, appearing on…

Wales Online

Musician desperate to change diet of boyfriend who has only ever eaten chicken nuggets and chips

Comedian Jo Brand's daughter, Maisi has got boyfriend Alfie to try a handful of other foods - including a Greggs sausage roll - with varying success

Daily Mirror

Jo Brand's daughter despairs for boyfriend who only eats chicken nuggets and fries

Jo Brand's daughter Maisi is 'teaching my boyfriend to eat' and has had breakthroughs with pasta and Greggs sausage rolls - but he still hates BabyBels and Dairylea

Evening Standard

Christmas Carole on Sky review: this contemporary retread lacks spirit

The latest adaptation of Dickens’ acclaimed novel fails to capture the magic of Scrooge’s redemption story

The Guardian - UK

What Not to Wear is long out of fashion, says Susannah Constantine

Public is tired of being told what to do, says presenter who finds modern need to avoid offending people ‘exhausting’

Liverpool Echo

Blankety Blank question forces Bradley Walsh to stop in his tracks

Bradley could barely keep it together to get through the question

The Guardian - UK

The Liz Truss gags flowed like No 10 plonk: Friday Night Live proves our best satirists are in their 60s

From Ben Elton’s electrifying political routine to Harry Enfield’s force-10 performance, Channel 4’s comedy programme showed that nobody does spiky topicality better than 1980s stars

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