An Extraordinary decision...
Disney cancels its superpower comedy
20/01/2025 … Disney+ has cancelled its comedy Extraordinary, set in a world in which everyone over 18 has superpowers.
2025 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 20 January 2025
© Rhian Ap Gruffydd John Bishop pilots BBC quiz show
Test episode of Wisdom Of The Crowd being shot next week
20/01/2025 … John Bishop is piloting a new BBC quiz show from the makers of The 1% Club, Wisdom Of The Crowd is described as being ‘all about making educated guesses’,…
Mae Martin announces a new music career
20/01/2025 … Mae Martin is to embark on a music career.
Sun 19 January 2025
Jenny Eclair - and a host of other comedians - hit the road
19/01/2025 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 7,715 events Chortle currently has listed – which has a very European flavour this week, with French,…
© Channel 4 Mr Wang goes to Washington
The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming
19/01/2025 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming in what's a quiet week for new laughs…: Monday January 20 JUST A MINUTE: Sue Perkins challenges…
Sat 18 January 2025
Top toons!
Who won at the first Splats! cartoon awards
18/01/2025 … What do you call a phalanx of cartoonists? A scribble? A squiggle? A rejection? Whatever the term, a group of the UK’s finest visual jokesmiths got…
© Paramount+ Frasier has left the building... again
Paramount+ pulls the plug on rebooted comedy
18/01/2025 … The Frasier reboot has been cancelled after two series.
Fri 17 January 2025
'I was brave to sue the makers of Live At The Moth Club'
Now Harry Deansway 'faces financial ruin' as he loses plagiarism case
17/01/2025 … Harry Deansway has said he was ‘brave’ to sue the makers of Live At The Moth Club for plagiarism, and suggested he only lost as the programme-makers…