New Netflix series for Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan
Panel show to fix the world's problems
12/06/2018 … Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan are to star in a new comedy panel show for Netflix.
Tue 12 June 2018
Will he get the shirt kicked out of him?
Scot Squad creator vows to wear England shirt in Glasgow if he sells enough Fringe tickets
12/06/2018 … The creator of Scot Squad has vowed to wear an England shirt in Glasgow every day of the World Cup – if he sells enough tickets to his Edinburgh Fringe…
Queen honours Melbourne Comedy Fest chief
Susan Provan made an Officer of the Order Of Australia
12/06/2018 … Melbourne comedy festival boss Susan Provan has said she is ‘proud’ that the artform has been recognised after being honoured by the Queen.
Dani Dyer to appear in a horror film about a stand-up
...alongside Clark Gable's grandson as a heckler
12/06/2018 … Love Island’s Dani Dyer is to appear in a new horror film about a stand-up comedian stalked by a fiendish heckler.
What was the name of Rik Mayall's World Cup song?
12/06/2018 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly trivia quiz - compiled, as always by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
Channel 4 picks up Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
Six episodes of his consumer affairs show ordered
12/06/2018 … Channel 4 has commissioned a full series of Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back after a successful pilot of the comedy consumer affairs show.
Joe Lycett charges £12.5million for head
Comedian's bid to make it as an artist
12/06/2018 … It’ll be a good standby in case the comedy doesn’t work out.
Deborah Frances-White pens Guilty Feminist book
With contributions from fellow comedians
12/06/2018 … Deborah Frances-White has written a book based on her podcast The Guilty Feminist.