All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Nit TV Sketch show's return finally happening after four-year wait
07/10/2026 … Steve Coogan and Fleabag’s Sian Clifford are among the guest stars in the second series of Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou’s sketch show, it has been…
After being banished from Celebrity Traitors
07/10/2026 … Amol Rajan is to host Have I Got News For You later this month.
07/10/2026 … Channel 4 has released new images from Stepping Up, the forthcoming sitcom written by and starring Josh Pugh.
With Bianca Del Rio and Lee Peart announcing new tours, too
06/10/2026 … The Fast Show team have announced a new run of dates for 2027.
© Harald Krichel / WikiPortraits Guest stars for James Corden and Ruth Jones's new comedy announced
06/10/2026 … Hannah Waddingham, James McAvoy and Jim Broadbent will guest star in James Corden and Ruth Jones’s The Choir, it has been revealed.
© BBC New sitcom about a crumbling country house
06/10/2026 … James Nesbitt has joined the cast of Hopley Hall, a new six-part BBC comedy set in a crumbling stately home on the County Antrim coast.
© BBC End of the line for long-running shows Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game
06/10/2026 … The BBC has axed two long-running Northern Irish comedy shows: Give My Head Peace and The Blame Game.
Australian comedian will be having a double mastectomy.
06/10/2026 … Australian comedian Judith Lucy has revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
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