You're hired! Shazia Mirza and Eddie Kadi set for The Apprentice
Celebrity edition to mark 20 years of Lord Sugar's show
06/03/2025 … Shazia Mirza and Eddie Kadi are to appear in a celebrity version of The Apprentice.
2025 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 06 March 2025
Wed 05 March 2025
Meet the second Chortle Student Comedy Award 2025 finalist
Fred Carver wins in Nottingham
05/03/2025 … Warwick university student Fred Carver has become the second Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist, after winning his semi at Nottingham Trent University last night, The…
Catherine Bohart launches party podcast
To help Comic Relief celebrate its 40th birthday
05/03/2025 … Catherine Bohart is to host a new podcast for Comic Relief.
© Mike Marsland/Getty Images Steve Carell joins Jesse Armstrong new project
Succession creator sticks with the billionaires
05/03/2025 … Steve Carrell has been cast in the first feature film to be directed by Succession and Peep Show creator Jesse Armstrong.
New comedy for Tracey Morgan
Reuniting him with 30 Rock's Tina Fey
05/03/2025 … Tracey Morgan is set to reunite with 30 Rock co-star and creator Tina Fey on a new comedy.
Tue 04 March 2025
Eddie Izzard to take Hamlet on tour
04/03/2025 … Eddie Izzard is to tour her solo version of Hamlet this autumn, taking on 23 characters.
© HBO C4 pass on James Acaster’s People Person game show
After a disastrous pilot recording
04/03/2025 … Channel 4 won’t be airing James Acaster’s game show People Person after the pilot was deemed a disaster.
Radio 4 comedy producer Bill Dare dies
Accident claims the life of the creator of The Now Show, Dead Ringers and more
04/03/2025 … Comedy producer Bill Dare – the creator of Radio 4’s Now Show and Dead Ringers – has died in a car accident abroad at the age of 64.