© Just For Laughs Just For Laughs pulls its Toronto comedy festival
Covid-19 'leaves us with no alternative'
07/07/2020 … Just For Laughs have pulled this year's JFL42 comedy festival due to be held in Toronto.
Tue 07 July 2020
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First look at Rose Matafeo in Baby Done
New Zealand romcom coming soon
07/07/2020 … Here's the first look at Rose Matafeo in the forthcoming New Zealand romcom movie Baby Done.
Lockdown will reawaken a love of live stand-up
...it did for me, writes Connor Wallace
07/07/2020 … In 2016, I thought I was finished with comedy.
Bill Bailey and Jason Manford to play first socially-distanced arena
Newcastle Racecourse becomes a festival site
07/07/2020 … Jason Manford and Bill Bailey are to be the first comedians to play what’s being billed as the first socially distanced live music arena.
© Netflix John Mulaney to make two more Sack Lunch Bunch specials
Moving from Netflix to Comedy Central
07/07/2020 … America's Comedy Central has signed up stand-up John Mulaney to produce two more of his Sack Lunch Bunch children's musical comedy specials.
© HFPA How many Baftas has Ricky Gervais won?
07/07/2020 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Joe Lycett's got your badge
Comic designs a pin to hail lockdown heroes
07/07/2020 … As an artist, Joe Lycett has already had a sculpture displayed at the Royal Academy.
Book deal for Gary Delaney
Collection of one-liners out this autumn
07/07/2020 … Gary Delaney has signed a deal to publish some of his best one-liners in a new joke book.