All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC Mike Bubbins sitcom will be back for series 3
13/05/2026 … Mammoth, the Welsh comedy about a PE teacher from the 70s who gets a second chance at life, will return for a third series it was announced at the BBC comedy festival…
© BBC/Avalon Its longest-running sitcom still on air
13/05/2026 … The BBC has commissioned a documentary celebrating 20 years of Lee Mack’s Not Going Out The show is the longest‑running British sitcom currently on air,…
© CNN/Hat Trick 13/05/2026 … The American version of Have I Got News For You has been recommissioned by CNN for a fifth series, premiering on September 12.
© Channel 4 SNL star to front the international TV awards
13/05/2026 … Ania Magliano from Sky's Saturday Night Live UK, has been announced as host of this year's prestigious international Rose d'Or TV awards.
© C4/Merman/2LE Channel 4 won't be renewing comedian's drug-dealing sitcom
13/05/2026 … Channel 4 has dropped Rosie Jones’s comedy Pushers after one series.
Compiling 'audio scrapbooks' of various years
13/05/2026 … Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears of the I’m So Not Over It podcast are launching a new series on BBC Radio Wales this Saturday In Gareth and Esyllt’s…
12/05/2026 … Big Break is returning with Paddy McGuinness as host.
Hosting a World Cup show with Rio Ferdinand
12/05/2026 … James Corden is heading back to late night American TV – if only temporarily.
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