Saturday Night Live unveils its UK cast
04/02/2026 … Sky has announced the cast of Saturday Night Live – and confirmed that the show will launch on March 21.
2026 News
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Wed 04 February 2026
© TaxRebate.org.uk/CC BY-SA 2.0 Comedians report a huge wage slump
20% fall recorded in UK Live Comedy Sector Survey
04/02/2026 … Britain’s live comedy sector is facing a financial crisis, with performers’ incomes falling sharply while costs continue to rise, according to a survey…
Tue 03 February 2026
Aurie Styla and Nish Kumar join Texan comedy festival
03/02/2026 … Aurie Styla and Nish Kumar have joined the line-up of the Moontown Comedy Festival in Austin, Texas.
Comics go spying for New Zealand
Familiar faces in new Kiwi comedy
03/02/2026 … Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas has teamed up with Kiwi comedians Rose Matafeo, Paul Williams and Bret McKenzie from Flight Of The Conchords to write and star in a…
© UKTV Comics tackle escape rooms in new TV show
With team captains Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar
03/02/2026 … Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar will lead two teams of comedians in an escape room series coming to U&Dave later this year.
© Paul Gilbey New podcast for Fern Brady and Alison Spittle
Four years after they last hosted Wheel Of Misfortune together,
03/02/2026 … Comedians Fern Brady and Alison Spittle are reuniting for a new podcast called Ignore That Feeling.
Richard Herring to star in Educating Rita
03/02/2026 … Richard Herring is to play disillusioned and alcoholic lecturer Frank in an amateur stage production of Educating Rita.
© C4 Which comedians are in Celebrity Bake Off 2026
03/02/2026 … Comics Richard Herring, Joe Wilkinson, Roisin Conaty, Jon Richardson, Babatunde Aléshé, Rose Matafeo, Judi Love and Tom Davis are taking part…