All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© C4 As an ITV exec during the 'coughing' scandal
16/08/2019 … Aisling Bea has been cast as an ITV executive in a new drama about how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an ‘audacious heist’ on the quiz show Who Wants…
...for using emergency alert tones
16/08/2019 … Jimmy Kimmel’s US talk show has been fined £325,000 for using the emergency warning tone in a comedy sketch.
Star won the first ever accolade in 1981
16/08/2019 … Stephen Fry is to present Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Award to the best show on the Fringe.
© BBC American crowned winner in live final
15/08/2019 … Janine Harouni has won this year's BBC Radio 4 comedy award.
Coming from a different town each week
15/08/2019 … Tom Allen is working on a new Channel 4 series which will come from a different British location each week.
© Channel 4 Second series for comic's consumer affairs show
15/08/2019 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back.
Disturbing details of attack revealed before he is sentenced
15/08/2019 … The man who killed Australian comedian Eurydice Dixon has appeared in court ahead of his sentencing.
No permanent chair for the show's 100th series
14/08/2019 … Radio 4’s News Quiz is to have a guest presenter each week as it celebrates its 100th series.
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