All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
One of the great hoaxes of the 20th century
07/09/2026 … Comedian Andrew Hunter Murray will delve into one of the great media hoaxes of the 20th century in a new Radio 4 series and podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal.
© Netflix 07/09/2026 … The Inbetweeners are making a third movie.
06/09/2026 … The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 6,112 events Chortle currently has listed.
The week's comedy on TV, radio and streaming
06/09/2026 … Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week.
He created The Men From The Ministry and gave Paul Merton his break
05/09/2026 … A 95-year-old blind veteran who wrote for Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies, helped launch Paul Merton’s broadcasting career and created the hit BBC comedy…
25th anniversary tour visits Bolton
05/09/2026 … Some of the cast of Phoenix Nights are returning to the club where the sitcom was filmed for a live show.
© The Comedy Unit No third series for Jack Docherty comedy
05/09/2026 … BBC Scotland has axed police sitcom The Chief.
As comedian and his wife set up a charity in his memory
04/09/2026 … Russell Howard has revealed that his and his wife Cerys’s son, Felix, died just hours after being born.
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