2025 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 07 March 2025
© Chortle Edinburgh Fringe announces its £2,500 bursary recipients
Third year of the Keep It Fringe assistance
07/03/2025 … The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has announced 180 recipients of a £2,500 bursary to help them bring a show to this year’s festival This…
© Netflix Comic fined £1,750 over ham pun
Harith Iskander's gag deemed to have mocked Islam
07/03/2025 … Comedian Harith Iskander has been fined the equivalent of £1,750 after making a pun about the word ‘ham’ deemed to have mocked Islam.
Documentary hails the visionary genuis of Douglas Adams
Sky to air The Man Who Imagined Our Future
07/03/2025 … Sky is to air a new documentary about Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams.
Thu 06 March 2025
© Matt Crockett Nick Mohammed joins Last One Laughing
Mr Swallow tries to make fellow comedians crack up
06/03/2025 … Nick Mohammed and Alison Hammond are to appear as cameos in the upcoming reality show Last One Laughing , Amazon has announced.
Call Jonathan Pie to return
Second series of Radio 4 comedy
06/03/2025 … Radio 4 has ordered a second series of Call Jonathan Pie, featuring Tom Walker’s angry news reporter alter-ego.
© BBC/Merman Amandaland's second series confirmed
BBC's hit comedy averaging 6.4million viewers
06/03/2025 … The BBC has confirmed that Amandaland will be returning for a second series.
Fergus Craig writes a Richard Osman crime spoof
Everyone In My Retirement Home Thinks I Killed Someone is out next year
06/03/2025 … Fergus Craig has written a spoof cosy crime novel, affectionately parodying the likes of Richard Osman.