Sara Cox pilots Radio 2 comedy panel show
Asking 'what if..' history was different?
01/03/2018 … Radio 2 is piloting a new comedy panel show inviting guests to imagine alternative versions of history.
Thu 01 March 2018
Is Louis CK planning his comedy comeback?
Stand-up spotted in New York hotspot
01/03/2018 … Louis CK is making tentative steps to get back into the comedy scene.
ITV axes Bigheads and The Nightly Show
Comedy formats 'underperformed'
01/03/2018 … ITV has confirmed that The Nightly Show will not be returning – while also cancelling the Jason Manford fronted gameshow Bigheads.
Barry Crimmins dies at 64
Pioneering US comic who fought internet paedophiles
01/03/2018 … Pioneering American comedian Barry Crimmins has died at the age of 64.
Matt Lucas to star in Me And My Girl
New stage production in Chichester
01/03/2018 … Matt Lucas is to take the lead in a new stage production of Me And My Girl.
Growing a human inside you? Have a free comedy ticket
Club's plan to make happier babies
01/03/2018 … It might be an extreme length to go to to blag free tickets… but a comedy club is letting pregnant women into their shows for gratis this month.
Revealed: The swathes of material cut from Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
'Any fool can write but only a writer can cut’
01/03/2018 … Douglas Adams wrote an ‘elaborate and elegant’ opening for his third Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy book – which he subsequently ditched.
Second series for Richard Herring's Relativity
01/03/2018 … Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Richard Herring’s family sitcom Relativity.