All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Rob Parfitt / Channel 4 The best of the week's comedy on TV, radio and on demand
31/08/2025 … Monday September 1 IAIN STIRLING’S ROAST THE INTERNET: The comic and his guests trawl social media for content.
Sky drops panel show after two seasons
29/08/2025 … Sky has axed Rob Beckett's Smart TV as the panel show format continues to wane.
Comic to 'fact check' his stand-up material
29/08/2025 … Romesh Ranganathan’s latest travelogue series – in which he ‘fact-checks’ his own stand-up material – is to air on Sky next…
© Hugo Glendinning Blending three other classic sitcom episodes
29/08/2025 … John Cleese is planning a second Fawlty Towers stage show following the success of the first.
Comic's show will go out on YouTube to avoid the regulators
28/08/2025 … A Tony Hancock show unseen for almost 70 years is to be released on YouTube after being deemed too offensive to air on regular TV.
Broadcaster buys Apple TV+’s hit comedy
28/08/2025 … BBC One is to air Apple TV+’s hit comedy Trying.
Comic is a masked wrestler in tag-team fight
28/08/2025 … Michael McIntyre has made his WWE debut.
© Pierre Rosa / Pixabay ...and which produces the least, per capita
28/08/2025 … Merseyside produces more comedians per capita than any other region of the UK.
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