Ker to curate R4's Museum Of Curiosity
31/05/2013 … Humphrey Ker is to be the new ‘curator’ on Radio 4 panel show The Museum Of Curiosity.
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31/05/2013 … Humphrey Ker is to be the new ‘curator’ on Radio 4 panel show The Museum Of Curiosity.
31/05/2013 … Sky’s family comedy Spy has been named best sitcom at the prestigious Rose D’Or international TV awards.
31/05/2013 … Jessica Hynes' new suffragette comedy Up The Women got off to a modest start in the ratings last night.
31/05/2013 … The BBC has announced the winners of its £5,000 search to find a mainstream comedy show that ‘promotes a positive portrayal of transgender people’.
31/05/2013 … Miles Jupp’s Radio 4 comedy In And Out Of The Kitchen is being adapted for television.
31/05/2013 … A tribute documentary about Frank Sidebottom is to go ahead after fans chipped in more than £40,000.
31/05/2013 … The conman who posed as the brother of Peter Kay to scam money out of pub landlords has admitted fraud.
31/05/2013 … ‘If you ask me if I think I'm a cocky cunt, I don't think I am.
30/05/2013 … Musical comedian Sammy J is to front a weekly topical TV show in his native Australia.
30/05/2013 … 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan is to star in his own TV comedy.
30/05/2013 … Eddie Izzard is planning to play a gig in each of America’s 50 states next year.
30/05/2013 … The Edinburgh Fringe programme has been published today, boasting more shows than ever before.
29/05/2013 … Organisers of Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival are claiming this year’s was the ‘most successful ever’ after releasing figures about the event.
29/05/2013 … Teenage comic Jack Carroll is through to the final of Britain’s Got Talent, thanks to the show’s viewers.
29/05/2013 … Richard Herring is to forego posters advertising his Edinburgh Fringe show – and use the thousands of pounds he saves to give all his audience members a free…
29/05/2013 … Russell Kane has announced an 80-date tour spanning from September to May.
29/05/2013 … Comedy Central has officially confirmed the return of The Alternative Comedy Experience, curated by Stewart Lee.
29/05/2013 … Stand-ups Des Clarke and Scott Agnew are to take over the prestigious Scottish National Portrait Gallery this Fringe.
29/05/2013 … The partner of Bill Pertwee has vowed to press ahead with her own comedy sketch show – which she will perform just ten days after his death.
29/05/2013 … Comedian Matt Richardson has landed a big break, hosting ITV2 spin-off show The Xtra Factor.
29/05/2013 … A disgruntled punter called the police after taking objection to a comedian’s materialTwo officers were dispatched to the Leicester Square Theatre on Friday after…
29/05/2013 … Joan Collins is to appear on Benidorm.
29/05/2013 … BBC Three has snapped up new series of Family Guy and the Elijah Wood sitcom Wilfred.
28/05/2013 … He’s often described himself as looking like a ‘fat Rik Mayall’.
28/05/2013 … Russell Kane is to headline the comedy tent at this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals.
28/05/2013 … Richard Herring is to host a new radio panel game about the dialects and slang of English speakers from around the world.
28/05/2013 … A Dutch comedy show as caused a stir by seeking laughs from the slaughter of soldier Lee Rigby.
28/05/2013 … The BBC’s new head of comedy has said that the genre has a bright future, as everyone is seeking the next big comedy hit.
27/05/2013 … Dad's Army star Bill Pertwee has died at the age of 86.
27/05/2013 … Teenage comedian Jack Carroll is through to the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent.
26/05/2013 … Peter Kay has topped a list of Britain’s top-earning comedians, with an income of £32.
26/05/2013 … Comedy Central has been ordered off the air for ten days in India after broadcasting ‘obscene’ jokes.
25/05/2013 … Chris Rock is auctioning off a walk-on role in his next movie.
25/05/2013 … Lee Nelson’s creator Simon Brodkin has been banned from a charity football match this weekend, because of his previous escapades.
25/05/2013 … Stephen Fry has been turned into street art in Norwich.
24/05/2013 … Dad’s Army star Ian Lavender is to make his Edinburgh Fringe debut in the Shawshank Redemption.
24/05/2013 … Micky Flanagan says there’s a drawback of being famous: he’s had to stop shoplifting.
24/05/2013 … Comedian Rob Beckett is set to co-host a new music show for Channel 4 – alongside Rizzle Kicks.
24/05/2013 … Eddie Izzard is to host one of the prestigious gala shows at this year’s Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, it has been announced.
23/05/2013 … BBC Radio’s annual New Comedy Award is to be launched on Steve Wright’s Radio 2 show today.
23/05/2013 … Billy Crystal is to star in a new sitcom called The Comedians.
23/05/2013 … Shameless star David Threlfall is to play Tommy Cooper in a new ITV drama.
23/05/2013 … A Canadian comedian has caused a storm after claiming she was fired from a comedy club after complaining of sexist abuse from the audience.
23/05/2013 … The comedy promoter who was arrested for urging passers-by to ‘laugh at the crippled girl’ performing at his club is suing for ‘malicious prosecution’.
23/05/2013 … Netflix could make even more episodes of Arrested Development if this weekend’s comeback proves a hit.
23/05/2013 … Jerry Lewis says he hates to watch women doing comedy because it ‘diminishes’ them.
22/05/2013 … Harry Hill has revealed that the title of his X Factor musical will be I Can’t Sing!The comic said: ‘We’d been umm-ing and ahh-ing about the title for a while,…
22/05/2013 … Radio 5 Live has commissioned another series of Al Murray’s topical show 7 Day Sunday.
22/05/2013 … Hannibal Buress has signed a major deal with America’s Comedy Central.
22/05/2013 … Al Murray is planning a Pub Landlord movie.
21/05/2013 … The series finale of US sitcom Mike & Molly has been shelved because of parallels with the Oklahoma tornados.
21/05/2013 … Police have tracked down a man who allegedly posed as the Peter Kay’s brother to con pub landlords.
21/05/2013 … The Melbourne comedy festival has announced a record-breaking year, taking more than £8.
21/05/2013 … Eddie Braben – the writer who created the relationship that made Morecambe and Wise megastars – has died at the age of 82.
20/05/2013 … Chortle is to stage another conference for new and up-and-comings comics to get the lowdown on all aspects of the industry.
19/05/2013 … Hancock and Steptoe and Son writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to be honoured with a blue plaque at the hospital where they met.
18/05/2013 … Smack The Pony writer Jane Bussmann has written 'the rudest sitcom ever' – and is seeking commercial sponsorship to make it happen.
17/05/2013 … Friends of a former leading light of Brighton’s alternative comedy scene have vowed to make his dying wish come true, and build an outdoor theatre in the city.
17/05/2013 … Keith Lemon is to snoop around celebrity houses in a revival of Through The Keyhole.
17/05/2013 … Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong were lined up to write Flight of the Conchords' US sitcom but had to pull out when their Channel 4 show was recommissioned.
17/05/2013 … Ricky Gervais name-drops in a new interview with GQ, revealing his attitude to ‘jumping the shark’: ‘Christopher Guest said to me—we were talking about comedians…
17/05/2013 … The Comedy Store’s joint venture to run a stand-up club in India has fallen apart with a protracted legal battle, following allegations of financial irregularities.
16/05/2013 … Paul Shane, who epitomised the holiday-camp comic as Hi-de-Hi!’s Ted Bovis, has died at the age of 72.
16/05/2013 … Richard Herring is to start charging for video versions of his hit podcasts – in the hope of being able to fund ‘TV-quality’ stand-up shows that he can release…
15/05/2013 … Rory McGrath has reportedly been arrested in Cornwall on suspicion of assaulting a couple.
15/05/2013 … Billy Connolly and David Tennant are to star in the new big-screen comedy from the writers of Outnumbered.
15/05/2013 … Radio 4 has been criticised by the BBC Trust for a ‘grossly offensive’ pun.
15/05/2013 … A relatively unknown comic has booked himself into the biggest venue at the Edinburgh Fringe, in what he hopes will be a triumph of positive thinking.
15/05/2013 … Keith Lemon has filmed a cameo role in Coronation Street.
15/05/2013 … Musical comic Rainer Hersch has hit out at the New Zealand Comedy Festival, after losing thousands of pounds on his trip there.
14/05/2013 … Isy Suttie has won the top award in radio comedy.
14/05/2013 … Inbetweeners star Blake Harrison has put the dampeners on rumours of a new movie, saying none of the stars have signed up to anything – and that he’s reluctant…
14/05/2013 … Disabled stand-up Tim Renkow was turfed out into the street by hostel staff who he believes mistook him for a homeless man.
14/05/2013 … Lee Evans has announced a tour of 51 arena dates in 2014.
14/05/2013 … Shameless creator Paul Abbott is to write a new comedy-drama set in a scruffy police station ‘on the wrong side’ of Manchester.
14/05/2013 … Eddie Izzard is to play this year’s Latitude festival.
13/05/2013 … The team behind Horrible Histories is making a new comedy film about William Shakespeare ‘in the style of Monty Python’.
13/05/2013 … The first four finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Awards were named last night.
13/05/2013 … Twenty Twelve has been named best sitcom at the Baftas, with Olivia Colman scooping the comedy acting prize for her role in the show.
12/05/2013 … Paul Foot has won the ‘best of the fest’ award at the Sydney Comedy Festival.
11/05/2013 … A sketch show pilot made by the BBC has been shortlisted for a major international award.
11/05/2013 … The American remake of BBC Three sitcom White Van Man has been axed after just two episodes.
10/05/2013 … NBC has given the green light to a sixth season of Parks and Recreation, in a busy day for US commissions – and cancellations.
10/05/2013 … Andy Kaufman is to release his first comedy album – almost 30 years after his death.
10/05/2013 … Ricky Gervais has revealed details of his new David Brent YouTube project.
10/05/2013 … Channel 4 has picked up Matt Berry’s Toast Of London for a full series.
10/05/2013 … Cardinal Burns is to return for a second series – and moving to Channel 4.
10/05/2013 … ‘Everything the Pub Landlord says is mental rubbish’ Al Murray.
10/05/2013 … The riddle of Dave Allen’s missing finger may finally have been solved.
10/05/2013 … A host of comedy names are to appear in an improvised 'romantic comedy road-movie' to be released this autumn.
09/05/2013 … Patrick Baladi, who played David Brent's nemesis Neil in The Office, has joined the cast of Ruth Jones’s Sky 1 comedy Stella.
09/05/2013 … Julian Barratt has joined Peter Serafinowicz in a TV counter-terrorism spoof.
09/05/2013 … Harry Hill will start filming his movie from Sunday alongside a host of comedy favourites.
09/05/2013 … Channel 4 has ordered a third series of Friday Night Dinner.
09/05/2013 … The US remake of Gavin & Stacey has been picked up for a full series.
09/05/2013 … Hollywood comedy club The Laugh Factory has become one of the first companies to start charging to watch YouTube videos.
09/05/2013 … Frank Skinner has been nominated for the title of commercial radio’s presenter of year.
09/05/2013 … David Baddiel is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe for his first full solo show for 15 years – as Bo Burnham also makes a festival comeback.
08/05/2013 … The Wrestling – which pitches comedians against professional grapplers – is returning to Edinburgh this August.
08/05/2013 … Parks & Recreation star Aziz Ansari is heading to the UK for a date at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.
08/05/2013 … Al Murray has signed up to present a show on digital radio station Planet Rock.
08/05/2013 … The first trailer has been released for Simon Pegg’s new film The World’s End.
08/05/2013 … American comic Tig Notaro is to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut, a year after her candid on-stage revelation that she had breast cancer.
08/05/2013 … Lee Mack and Catherine Tate are to appear in a British remake of Everybody Loves Raymond.
07/05/2013 … Jimmy Tarbuck has become the latest star to be arrested over an allegation of child sex abuse dating back to the 1970s.
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07/05/2013 … Doug Stanhope has offered a free graveyard slot to the Boston bomb suspect – just to spite the town where he grew up.
07/05/2013 … Channel 4 has ordered an 'irreverent' hidden camera show from Ireland.
07/05/2013 … Eric Sykes is to be honoured with a blue plaque on the wall of the office where he spent more than 50 years writing comedy.
07/05/2013 … Filming on The IT Crowd finale is due to begin later this month, its creator Graham Linehan has confirmed.
05/05/2013 … Billy Connolly says he has ‘no regrets’ about reducing a photographer to tears by verbally abusing her during his live showThe comic is said to have called Valerie…
04/05/2013 … Edinburgh Fringe bosses have urged the city council to slash the cost of licencing venues for the festival.
03/05/2013 … American comic Rick Shapiro has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
03/05/2013 … ‘It would be an insult to my audience if the show related to the title.
03/05/2013 … The Underbelly is further expanding its Edinburgh Fringe operation, with a brand new 200-seat venue.
03/05/2013 … Stewart Francis wants to quit stand-up to become a cartoonist.
03/05/2013 … Caitlin Moran has written a semi-autobiographical sitcom pilot for Channel 4 about a single mother raising six, home-schooled children in Wolverhampton.
03/05/2013 … Channel 4 has ordered a second series of The Mimic.
02/05/2013 … A children’s book written by comic Catie Wilkins has received a huge boost after being selected for a major schools’ reading programme.
02/05/2013 … Sky Living has ordered a new sitcom based around a group of promotional girls, who hand out products in the street.
02/05/2013 … The Greenwich Comedy Festival is to move five miles across London, to a new home in Brick Lane.
02/05/2013 … Piff The Magic Dragon has been named stage magician of the year by The Magic Circle.
02/05/2013 … Three of America’s most successful stand-ups are to launch their own theme park.
01/05/2013 … ITV has axed its sitcom Great Night Out after one series.
01/05/2013 … Armando Iannucci’s US political comedy Veep has been renewed for a third season.
01/05/2013 … Reports that The Inbetweeners cast have signed up to a movie sequel have been officially denied.
01/05/2013 … IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade is to front the next series of Channel 4’s Gadget Man.
01/05/2013 … The Professional Footballers’ Association is demanding a full refund of the fee they paid Reginald D Hunter to perform at their annual dinner, after he offended…
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