All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC Tim Key and Daisy May Cooper headline
16/02/2022 … A raft of top names has been added to the forthcoming BBC period comedy The Witchfinder, starring Tim Key and Daisy May Cooper.
Joe Lycett, Alan Carr and Mawaan Rizwan all nominated
16/02/2022 … Joe Lycett, Alan Carr and Mawaan Rizwan are among the nominees for this year’s British LGBT Awards.
© Cato Institute/CC BY-SA 3.0 Tributes to 'the funniest writer of the last 40 years'
16/02/2022 … American satirist PJ O’Rourke has died at the age of 74.
© Forever Edinburgh (edinburgh.org)/CC BY-SA 2.0 Ending 'open access' will help cure Edinburgh's problems, says report
15/02/2022 … The Edinburgh Fringe should rethink its ‘open access’ policy and introduce more regulation, a new report has urged.
Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and Regina Hall
15/02/2022 … The 94th Oscars will be hosted by Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes and comedy actress Regina Hall it was announced today.
Komedia Bath gigs to be signed bimonthly
15/02/2022 … The Komedia venue in Bath to start offering a British Sign Language interpreter at some of its comedy gigs.
© BBC Full series for Tom Basden's Here We Go
15/02/2022 … The BBC has commissioned a full series of a family comedy starring Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson, following a successful pilot based on the Covid pandemic.
© Matt Writtle Armando Iannucci and Olga Koch also among the winners
14/02/2022 … Mae Martin and her Feel Good co-writer Joe Hampson have won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for best TV situation comedy.
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