Catherine Tate: I'm planning to tour
16/10/2015 … Catherine Tate is considering her first live tour, possibly as early as this spring.
Fri 16 October 2015
UK book deal for Amy Schumer
Memoirs to be published next year
16/10/2015 … Amy Schumer's memoirs are to be published in the UK in a deal worth 'well into six figures'.
© C4/Aimee Spinks BBC comedy risks becoming 'sexist and racist'
Says Jessica Knappett of BBC Three plans
16/10/2015 … The BBC’s comedy output risks becoming more ‘racist, sexist and classist’ because of the Government-imposed cuts, Inbetweeners actress Jessica Knappett…
Thu 15 October 2015
A Portrait Of An Idiot As A Young Man, by Jon Holmes
15/10/2015 … The subtitle of Jon Holmes's autobiography, 'part memoir, part explanation as to why men are so rubbish', indicates it's being pitched as a manual of modern manhood,…
Gary McNair: Donald Robertson is Not a Stand Up Comedian
Theatre review by Steve Bennett at Oxford North Wall Arts Centre
15/10/2015 … Donald Robertson Is Not A Stand-Up Comedian, and nor is Gary McNair, the creator of this theatre/comedy hybrid that examines why on earth people would ever think…
A 'Netflix', just for comedy
New shows as NBC launches laughs on demand
15/10/2015 … America is to get a new Netflix-style subscription channel showing only comedy.
© BBC/Tiger Aspect/Matt Squire Boy Meets Girl to return
Stars confirm second series, even if BBC doesn't
15/10/2015 … Boy Meets Girl, the first British sitcom to revolve around a transgender character, is to return for a second series.