All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Stuart Hogben Stand-up A-listers include Ed Gamble, Frankie Boyle and Phil Wang
06/06/2025 … The Greenwich Comedy Festival has announced the line-up for this year’s event, being held in a marquee in the Old Royal Naval College.
Playing himself and his parents in Rest Easy Gerry Boy
06/06/2025 … Scottish stand-up Darren Connell has created a comedy short for Channel 4.
Call-out from Edinburgh Fringe show
05/06/2025 … Writers are invited to submit their comedy scripts to a Fringe show that will stage their work with a cast of top comedians.
© BBC Discovery in legendary writers' archives
05/06/2025 … Previously unknown material that legendary comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson created for The Goon Show has been unearthed in their archive.
Virgin Radio reunion to mark Buxton's new book
05/06/2025 … Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish are reuniting this weekend for a one-off show on Virgin Radio.
Under its Comedy Lab scheme in Northern Ireland
05/06/2025 … Channel 4 and Northern Ireland Screen have selected three half-hour scripts to be written as part of the broadcaster’s Comedy Lab in Northern Ireland, offering…
With acclaimed Irish writer Stuart Carolan
05/06/2025 … The BBC has ordered a ‘darkly comedic’ crime drama based on the novels of former comic Caimh McDonnell and co-created by ex stand-up Chris Addison.
Brazil's Leo Lins 'is being treated like a drug trafficker'
05/06/2025 … A Brazilian comedian has been jailed for eight years and three months for making offensive jokes in a stand-up special.
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