All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC/Balloon Entertainment/Colin Hutton New drama about the Steptoe And Son writers' early days
24/01/2025 … Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are to portray comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in a new radio play.
Sam Tallent’s Running The Light out in May
24/01/2025 … A novel inspired by American stand-up Sam Tallent’s life as a road comic is to get a UK release.
In Belfast, Manchester, Birmingham and London
24/01/2025 … Kevin Hart has announced five UK dates for his stand-up tour Acting My Age.
Comic Cruttenden to play the wartime leader
23/01/2025 … Hal Cruttenden is to play Winston Churchill in a new film based on the origins of the welfare state.
© HBO Acclaimed US comedy about a Vegas stand-up reinventing her ageing act
23/01/2025 … Highly acclaimed US comedy Hacks is coming to British TV.
© Netflix Malaysian stand-up Harith Iskander accused of 'making fun of Islamic teachings'
23/01/2025 … Malaysian comedian Harith Iskander faces police action after making a pun about the word ‘ham’ deemed to have mocked Islam.
© Big Talk/Apple TV+ Producers 'looking to make a special' from footage already shot
23/01/2025 … Producers of Noel Fielding’s abandoned Dick Turpin comedy are hoping to salvage enough footage to be able to make an hour-long special, it has been suggested.
22/01/2025 … Vislor Antilly, the German Shepherd who played Brandy, Ricky Gervais’ sidekick in After Life, has died at the age of 13.
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