2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 15 August 2014
Mel & Sue return to chat show
15/08/2014 … Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins are to present an ITV daytime chat show – 15 years after their Channel 4 chat show was cancelled.
Thu 14 August 2014
© Giles Smith Josie Long's film in New York festival
14/08/2014 … A FILM starring Josie Long has been officially selected for screening at the New York Television Festival.
Talk show for Braunohler?
Comedy Central US orders pilot
14/08/2014 … Offbeat comedian Kurt Braunohler could become the next late-night talk show host on American TV.
A considered opinion?
Threat to block 'disrespectful' blog's free tickets
14/08/2014 … A row has erupted on the Edinburgh Fringe after a PR company threatened to withdraw free press tickets from bloggers for not showing enough respect to the comedians…
Tue 12 August 2014
© Charles Haynes/Creative Commons Police: Robin Williams hanged himself
President Obama joins tributes
12/08/2014 … Robin Williams took his own life by hanging himself at his California home, police have confirmed.
© Charles Haynes/Creative Commons Robin Williams found dead
12/08/2014 … Robin Williams has been found dead at his home the age of 63, in an apparent suicide.
Monks hasn't a prayer...
BBC passes on Seann Walsh's monastery sitcom
12/08/2014 … The BBC have decided not to make a series of the monastery-set sitcom Monks, which aired earlier this year.