Stand comedy clubs get a new MD
Arts centre bossMike Jones takes over from long-serving Kenny O'brien
29/01/2019 … The Stand comedy clubs have announced a replacement for Kenny O’Brien, its long-serving general manager.
Tue 29 January 2019
© ust For Laughs/ Susan Moss Photography Netflix comedian accused of widespread joke theft
Dossier of alleged plagiarism by Gad Elmaleh
29/01/2019 … The world’s biggest French-speaking stand-up has been accused of stealing jokes from comedians including George Carlin, Steven Wright and Richard Pryor.
See Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade in the Lego Movie 2
Stars' casting as a vampire and an ice cream cone revealed
29/01/2019 … Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade have lent their voices to the new Lego 2 movie, it has been announced today.
Mon 28 January 2019
The Donald Trump Cell Block Tango
28/01/2019 … Donald Tump-baiting song parodist Randy Rainbow has released a new version of the Cell Block Tango – highlighting how many of the President’s men have been snared…
© ITV The Stand Up Sketch Show
28/01/2019 … Oddly, ITV2’s new way of presenting stand-up appears to have come from someone with no faith in stand-up at all.
Massive mural honours the Derry Girls
28/01/2019 … The cast of Derry Girls have been honoured with a 20ft hogh mural in the town where the comedy is set.
Second series for Famalam
Black-led sketch show returns to BBC Three this spring
28/01/2019 … Sketch show Famalam is to return for a second series, the BBC has announced.
© C4 Jo Brand plans an 'OAPs behaving badly' sitcom
Written with Damned co-creator Morwenna Banks
28/01/2019 … Jo Brand is working on a new comedy series about pensioners behaving badly.