All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC David Walliams and Matt Lucas record a sketch for BBC One’s Big Night In
16/04/2020 … Little Britain is to return to TV for the first time in more than ten years as part of BBC One’s Big Night In.
With sketches, music and games
16/04/2020 … Mo Gilligan is to return to Channel 4, hosting a new lockdown gameshow.
16/04/2020 … Matt Lucas is to front a new Channel 4 comedy entertainment series written by Harry Hill.
As comic highlights the dedication of care workers
16/04/2020 … A new episode of Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience has been rushed on to the schedules in honour of Britain’s care workers.
Netflix names release date for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
16/04/2020 … Netflix has announced an air date for the final – and interactive – episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt via a teaser video.
...but it's not saying who's taking part
15/04/2020 … Comedy Central has ordered a series of social media shorts from comedians stuck in lockdown.
Part of a package of lockdown projects
15/04/2020 … London’s Angel Comedy club has launched live-streamed content five nights a week during the lockdown.
'I will be like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner'
15/04/2020 … Frank Skinner is to launch a new podcast all about poetry.
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