Masked agents snatch comedy club manager
24/10/2025 … The night manager of the Chicago Laugh Factory has been taken into custody by US federal agents.
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Fri 24 October 2025
© Rebel Wilson Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger join Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group.
24/10/2025 … Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger have joined Rebel Wilson’s new comedy Girl Group.
Ricky Gervais makes a cameo in Asterix
Comedian immortalised as a centurion called Extraneus
24/10/2025 … Ricky Gervais has been immortalised in an Asterix cartoon.
© YouTube Garth Marenghi launches YouTube show
'Flushing the skulls' of fellow horror kings
24/10/2025 … Garth Marenghi has launched a video podcast interviewing fellow ‘titans of terror’.
Jason Manford to host the Royal Variety Performance
Tom Davis, Mick Miller and Dead Ringers among the line-up
24/10/2025 … Jason Manford is to host this year’s Royal Variety Performance, it has been announced.
Thu 23 October 2025
Exposé of 21Soho's failure to pay comedians is up for a journalism award
...for its writer Rachael Healy
23/10/2025 … A report into London comedy venue 21Soho failing to pay its acts has earned its writer a nomination in the British Journalism Awards.
Nigel Ng to create an animated Uncle Roger series
Comic will use artificial intelligence to bring the story to life
23/10/2025 … Nigel Ng is making a Mr Bean-style cartoon for his Uncle Roger character, using cutting-edge AI to produce an origin story for his volatile alter-ego.
Alice Lowe works on two horror-comedy films
...one based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
23/10/2025 … Alice Lowe is working on two dark comedy films: a reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a comedy-horror about a girl guide group, entitled Sprites.