Rob Beckett: I'm quitting touring to spent time with my family
Comic plans a decade away from the road
20/03/2025 … Rob Beckett has said he’s quitting touring to spend more time with his family.
Thu 20 March 2025
The Four Seasons trailer
20/03/2025 … Netflix has released the tailer for The Four Seasons, a Tina Fey comedy series based on the 1981 Alan Alda film of the same name.
Last One Laughing UK
Review of the British version of the hit international format
20/03/2025 … Britain is the 29th country to make its own version of Last One Laughing, the Amazon Prime Video format in which comedians are sequestered in a reality TV-style…
Quick chat about benefit cuts
20/03/2025 … Michael Spicer exposes the brutal consequences of the government removing PIP (Personal Independence Payment) from disabled people in his latest video.
© Peter Rogan Film offers a rare peak at Ken Dodd's private life
...including extracts from the notebooks he wanted to be destroyed
20/03/2025 … Extracts from notebooks belonging to Sir Ken Dodd are to be broadcast for the first time in a new documentary about the comedian.
© Nina Prommer/ZUMA Press Wire Marty Callner, pioneer of the comedy special, dies at 78
He directed the very first HBO stand-up show
20/03/2025 … Marty Callner, who directed numerous American comedy specials, has died at 78.
© BBC/CTVC Helen Lederer and Daliso Chaponda undertake BBC's Pilgrimage
Comedians take on 300km trek through the Alps
20/03/2025 … Daliso Chaponda and Helen Lederer are among the celebrities taking part in this years’ BBC Pilgrimage.
Wed 19 March 2025
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo HBO to air Brett Goldstein's first stand-up special
The Second Best Night Of Your Life coming in April
19/03/2025 … Brett Goldstein has recorded his first special, which will air on America’s HBO next month.