All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sky to air the 'retro-infused' Force & Majeure
18/09/2025 … Natasha Lyonne and Matt Berry are to star in a new comedy thriller series billed as a ‘retro-infused, playfully irreverent take on the classic TV action-adventure…
Huge break for the British freestyle comedy rapper
18/09/2025 … Freestyle comedy rapper Chris Turner has made the final of America’s Got Talent.
18/09/2025 … Sarah Millican’s 2012 show Home Bird has been released on YouTube for free.
Revisiting famous characters and answering audience questions
18/09/2025 … Harry Enfield is to revive some of his best-known characters for a new live tour.
© Remarkable Entertainment Series 9 kicks off with Mark Steel and others
17/09/2025 … Richard Osman’s House of Games is returning to BBC Two on September 29.
Victoria Coren Mitchell hosting its first episode
17/09/2025 … Have I Got News For You is returning for its 70th series next month, marking 35 years on air.
Comic competed in 155-mile Sahara ultramarathon
17/09/2025 … Paul Tonkinson is writing a book about defying ageing by running an ultra-marathon across the Sahara Desert.
© UKTV 40th anniversary production of Jim Cartwright's Road
17/09/2025 … Johnny Vegas and Lucy Beaumont are to star in a new production of the comic play Road.
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