New awards for those trying to change the world with comedy
05/12/2019 … A Belgian TV show featuring disabled people and a German campaign against taxes on sanitary products have won the first Finger Awards, created to honour comedy projects…
© BBC American remake for BBC Three comedy
05/12/2019 … This Country is being lined up for a US remake with Bridesmaids and Last Christmas director Paul Feig at the helm.
05/12/2019 … A mental health chat show fronted by Maria Bamford and a sitcom from British improvisers Graham Dickson and Liz Kingsman have been commissioned by a new US streaming…
© BBC/Sophie Mutevelian Duo developing new comedy ideas
05/12/2019 … Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have signed an exclusive deal with the BBC’s independent programme-making arm.
With Steve Coogan, David Mitchell – and Jessica Fostekew
05/12/2019 … A new trailer has been released for Greed, the movie in which Steve Coogan plays a self-made British retail billionaire said to be based on TopShop's Sir Philip…
© Jill Furmanovsky Daniel Sloss launches a Whamageddon fundraiser
05/12/2019 … Daniel Sloss is turning the annual Whamaggedon! challenge into a charity fundraiser.
'You can't trust me' to the tune of MC Hammer...
05/12/2019 … It's the mash-up the general election campaign has been crying out for.
Comic is beatified in a prayer candle
05/12/2019 … Is Katherine Ryan saintly? Somebody seems to think so – as the comedian has been made into a Christian-style prayer candle.
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