Stand comedy clubs get a new MD
Arts centre bossMike Jones takes over from long-serving Kenny O'brien
29/01/2019 … The Stand comedy clubs have announced a replacement for Kenny O’Brien, its long-serving general manager.
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Tue 29 January 2019
© ust For Laughs/ Susan Moss Photography Netflix comedian accused of widespread joke theft
Dossier of alleged plagiarism by Gad Elmaleh
29/01/2019 … The world’s biggest French-speaking stand-up has been accused of stealing jokes from comedians including George Carlin, Steven Wright and Richard Pryor.
See Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade in the Lego Movie 2
Stars' casting as a vampire and an ice cream cone revealed
29/01/2019 … Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade have lent their voices to the new Lego 2 movie, it has been announced today.
Mon 28 January 2019
Second series for Famalam
Black-led sketch show returns to BBC Three this spring
28/01/2019 … Sketch show Famalam is to return for a second series, the BBC has announced.
© C4 Jo Brand plans an 'OAPs behaving badly' sitcom
Written with Damned co-creator Morwenna Banks
28/01/2019 … Jo Brand is working on a new comedy series about pensioners behaving badly.
Mrs Maisel dominates the SAG awards
Trio of gongs for Amazon Prime show
28/01/2019 … The Marvelous Mrs Maisel swept the board at America's Screen Actors Guild awards last night with a hat trick of trophies of the night.
Sun 27 January 2019
Don't spare the Rhod
The best of the week's live comedy
27/01/2019 … The best of the week's live comedy Monday January 28 LONDON: Daniel Kitson hosts a comedy fundraiser in the Grand Hall of the Battersea Arts Centre - where…
© ITV What should we call this stand-up and sketch show?
The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio
27/01/2019 … The week's best comedy on TV and radio.