All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC/Two Brothers More acclaim for Phoebe Waller-Bridge
20/06/2019 … Fleabag is up for three gongs in the prestigious Television Critics Awards in America, including programme of the year.
20/06/2019 … Cold Feet has been recommissioned for a ninth series.
© BBC With Sian Gibson in the title role
20/06/2019 … David Walliams and Sian Gibson are to star in a sequel to the Cinderella story for Sky One.
Legal tussle could sink comedy club
19/06/2019 … Comedians have raised more than £1,000 to help a comedy promoter embroiled in a ‘David and Goliath’ tussle with a venue he used to book.
Doon Mackichan says no TV channel wants their new sketches
19/06/2019 … No broadcaster is prepared to air a Smack The Pony reunion, star Doon Mackichan has claimed.
Including Phoenix Nights' Clinton Baptiste
19/06/2019 … Winchester Comedy Festival has announced the line-up for its seventh event, including Ed Byrne, Richard Herring and Clinton Baptiste – the hapless clairvoyant…
As Soho strip club is replaced by a new theatre
19/06/2019 … Comedy is returning to the London venue that was once home to the groundbreaking Comic Strip troupe.
..in the guise of a fake parish newsletter.
19/06/2019 … This Country siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper are to write their first book.
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