Darren Connell creates a C4 comedy short
Playing himself and his parents in Rest Easy Gerry Boy
06/06/2025 … Scottish stand-up Darren Connell has created a comedy short for Channel 4.
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Writers: Have your scripts performed by pro comedians
Call-out from Edinburgh Fringe show
05/06/2025 … Writers are invited to submit their comedy scripts to a Fringe show that will stage their work with a cast of top comedians.
© BBC Unearthed: Scripts Galton and Simpson wrote for the Goons
Discovery in legendary writers' archives
05/06/2025 … Previously unknown material that legendary comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created for The Goon Show has been unearthed in their archive.
© ITV Cymru Wales We Welsh are a very melodramatic people!
Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs on their long friendship
05/06/2025 … Welsh comedy actors Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are spending a nostalgic weekend in Merthyr Tydfil for a new BBC One programme airing next week.
Adam and Joe on air together again after 16 years
Virgin Radio reunion to mark Buxton's new book
05/06/2025 … Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are reuniting this weekend for a one-off show on Virgin Radio.
Channel 4 orders three pilot comedy scripts
Under its Comedy Lab scheme in Northern Ireland
05/06/2025 … Channel 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have selected three half-hour scripts to be written as part of the broadcaster’s Comedy Lab in Northern Ireland, offering…
Chris Addison helps adapt Caimh McDonnell's comedy crime stories for the BBC
With acclaimed Irish writer Stuart Carolan
05/06/2025 … The BBC has ordered a ‘darkly comedic’ crime drama based on the novels of former comic Caimh McDonnell and co-created by ex stand-up Chris Addison.
8 YEARS: Jail term for comic over his jokes
Brazil's Leo Lins 'is being treated like a drug trafficker'
05/06/2025 … A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special.