© BBC Monica Dolan, Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig, Alice Lowe and Earl Cave
26/06/2018 … The cast of Simon Bird’s first movie has been announced, including Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig, Prevenge’s Alice Lowe and W1A’s Monica Dolan.
Leicester Comedy Festival renews its scheme
26/06/2018 … Organisers of the Leicester Comedy Festival have launched a crowdfunding campaign to help new comedians.
Dave Longley and Gavin Webster trade 'banter'
25/06/2018 … Two male comedians have come under fire for joking about their colleagues getting raped after gigs – and blaming victims for not looking after their own…
25/06/2018 … Comedy promoter Tim Rendle, who ran the Lions Den Comedy Club in London, has died of cancer at the age of 45.
© Ben Meadows Stath Lets Flats star Jamie Demetriou picks his Perfect Playlist
25/06/2018 … Jamie Demetriou's new comedy.
25/06/2018 … Filming has just begun on the fifth series of Scot Squad.
Adam Rowe wants more regional voices on TV, too
25/06/2018 … Last week, the BBC’s comedy chief Shane Allen said that the times where our genre has been dominated by ‘white Oxbridge men’ is over.
Almost 50 years to the day since comic took his own life
25/06/2018 … A prolific comedy writer who was working with Tony Hancock when he took his own life 50 years ago today has himself died.
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