Diane Morgan to play a robot in AI sitcom
BBC One comedy co-written with Sarah Kendall
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Alice And Steve rounds out its cast
Joel Fry and Marcia Warren have joined the cast of…
BBC calls for tax breaks for comedy
The BBC has commissioned a major report into the ‘substantial’…
Official: Piglets gets a second series
ITV has confirmed that its police training…
Guz Khan is to star alongside Morgana Robinson and…
Rob Brydon is to star in a new BBC One sitcom as a…
Mackenzie Crook creates a new BBC comedy
Sir Michael Palin, Sophie Willan and Jon Pointing are…
BBC orders a second series of Only Child
The BBC has ordered a second series of Only Child, its cross-generational sitcom…
The Young Offenders gets a fifth series
The BBC has recommissioned The Young Offenders for a fifth series. Alex…
Lenny Rush to play The Reluctant Vampire
Lenny Rush is to play The Reluctant Vampire in a new supernatural comedy based…
Funboys will return to create more chaos
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The BBC has ordered a second series of its Welsh animated comedy The Golden Cobra. The…
BBC adapts the comic novel Leonard and Hungry Paul
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Tour news
Features
Steve Coogan: Being lower-middle class gave me a comedy superpower
Steve Coogan has credited his lower-working class upbringing as helping him get ahead…
BBC comedy chief says funny CAN come cheap
Spending more money on comedy shows doesn’t make them funnier, the BBC’s…
Aisling Bea: My pride – and shame - at my family tree
Aisling Bea discovered that her great-grandfather was an active fighter for Irish…
How much do I love detectives? My dog's called Dorothy L Sayers...
Hot on the heels of Ludwig, the BBC's new comedy-detective series Death Valley…
Reviews
Harun Musho’d: A History of the Last Conservative Government, In Their Own Stupid Words
Harun Musho’d calls this show the ‘worst…
Live comedy picks
Gig of the day
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Operation Mincemeat release Dear Bill single
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Who's on Chortle's 2025 Fast Fringe?
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Filming starts on comedy movie Blueberry Inn
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Iain Stirling starts filming Race Against The Tide
Iain Stirling has started filming Race Against The Tide, the sand sculpture…
PBH Free Fringe launches a London festival
Organisers of Edinburgh’s PBH Free Fringe are launching a three-day mini-festival…
Manchester's Laughterama festival to return
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Exeter Comedy Festival returns
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Punching Up
Alex Horne: I didn't want to kill Jason Mantzoukas with an egg
Alex Horne was petrified of killing Jason Mantzoukas with an egg on the current series of Taskmaster. The actor is severely allergic to the breakfast favourite,…
John Shuttleworth puts his Austin Ambassador Y-Reg up for sale
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Sophie Willan: I'm going to be a mum
Sophie Willan has announced that she’s to become…
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Videos
Here’s the Horne Section taking a vote on what their next album title should be.
Suggestions included Constantly Pumped, Zero Charisma and Songs About Talcum Powder.
The unrehearsed scene comes from the new series of the band’s TV show that starts on Channel 4 at 10pm.
Get Constantly Pumped
From The Horne Section TV Show
By Randy Rainbow
Nina Conti's film with Shenoah Allen
Colin Jost and Michael Che's SNL joke swap
Plus Miss Eggy returns to Weekend Update