All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© HBO HBO comedy renewed as season 4 draws to an end
28/05/2025 … Hacks is to return for a fifth season, charting the attempts of fictional comedy veteran Deborah Vance to dominate late-night TV.
With comedians pitching obscure movie ideas
28/05/2025 … Jimmy Carr has launched a new comedy podcast with Netflix.
As they celebrate their tenth anniversary
27/05/2025 … Cult comedy podcast CheapShow is to release a vinyl record to mark its tenth birthday.
Special programmes in honour of the late comedy producer
27/05/2025 … Radio 4 is to pay tribute to the late comedy producer Bill Dare in three special programmes next month.
We can be more distinctive and creative, programme-makers say
27/05/2025 … Britain’s TV comedy producers are not only accepting the reality that they’ll have to make shows on a shoestring budget - but finding the positives in…
27/05/2025 … An authorised biography of Rik Mayall is to be published… but not until March 2028 on what would have been his 70th birthday.
© Jonathan Kemp Photography Ahead of the gig at Clapham Grand
27/05/2025 … The finalists for the LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year 2025 have been announced.
© Two Rivers Comic felt backlash harmed his career, says TV exec
26/05/2025 … Frankie Boyle privately admitted that it one of his most controversial jokes should never have aired, the TV executive who signed it off has revealed.
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