All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo All about the night he first tried stand-up while recoiling from a divorce
30/04/2025 … Bradley Cooper’s new film is based on the life of John Bishop, one of its stars has revealed.
Peter Richardson holds retrospective shows
30/04/2025 … Peter Richardson is reviving his Comic Strip Presents… brand for a series of gigs at the Edinburgh Fringe.
© BBC Others feature the likes of Elaine C. Smith and Ladhood’s Karan Gill
30/04/2025 … The BBC are to release a new series of comedy pilots featuring the likes of Fatiha El-Ghorri, Elaine C.
About a couple hiding a Jewish salesman from the Nazis
30/04/2025 … Simon Bird is to direct a comedy film about a couple who offer refuge to a Jewish perfume salesman during the Second World War.
29/04/2025 … Samira Banks has signed up to the Blue Book comedy agency.
© Sky 29/04/2025 … Daisy May Cooper is in the cast of the new Astérix & Obélix animated series, it has been announced.
Major London comedy venue opening this week
29/04/2025 … Here are the first images from inside the new Soho Theatre Walthamstow, which opens on Friday with a run of Natalie Palamides’ show Weer.
Trying out the 'gadgets and gizmos' that will help his life
29/04/2025 … Chris McCasuland is to make a BBC Two documentary on how technology has been life-changing for him, and what the future holds.
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