Jamie Demetriou joins Netflix comedy Back in Action
Alongside Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz.
08/02/2023 … Jamie Demetriou has joined the cast of new Netflix action-comedy movie Back in Action – starring alongside Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz.
Wed 08 February 2023
© C4 Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared scoops two comedy.co.uk awards
08/02/2023 … Channel 4’s offbeat, adult puppet comedy Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared has been voted comedy of the year and best new TV sitcom at the 2022 Comedy.
Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast returns
Series six focusses on poet laureates
08/02/2023 … Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast is returning for a sixth series.
The Fawlty Towers remakes
A real-life farce in four flops...
08/02/2023 … Just five years ago, John Cleese told an interviewer: ‘If I ever tried to do a Fawlty Towers-type sitcom again, everyone would say, "It’s not as…
Comedians up for BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023
08/02/2023 … Milton Jones, Ken Cheng and Tudur Owen are among the finalists for for this year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards.
Tue 07 February 2023
Chortle Awards 2023 winners announced
Including Jazz Emu, Dara O Briain, Seann Walsh, Bob Mortimer, Joe Lycett
07/02/2023 … Musical comedian Jazz Emu was a double winner at the Chortle Awards in a ceremony that also honoured Dara O Briain, Seann Walsh, Bob Mortimer, Joe Lycett and more.
© Channel 4 Comedians enter the Bake Off tent
Tim Key, Mike Wozniak, Rose Matafeo and more join celeb version
07/02/2023 … Comedians including Tim Key, Mike Wozniak, Rose Matafeo and Lucy Beaumont are to appear in the next series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off.
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Crackerjack biographer Alan Stafford on the comedy staple of kids' TV
07/02/2023 … In 1982 Ian and Janette Krankie defected from BBC to ITV, leaving Paul Ciani, producer of long-running teatime variety show Crackerjack, with a gap that needed filling.