All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© University of Cambridge Thatcher's puppet now on display
14/11/2018 … Margaret Thatcher’s Spitting Image puppet now sits alongside the works of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other treasures at Cambridge University Library.
For a ten-year anniversary celebration
14/11/2018 … The stars of The Inbetweeners are to reunite for a 10th anniversary show.
...and she makes a dark jokes about it
13/11/2018 … Sarah Silverman has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
BBC Wales falls back into the Tourist Trap
13/11/2018 … BBC Wales has commissioned a second series of its mockumentary Tourist Trap, starring Sally Phillips as the hapless boss of a fictional Welsh tourist board.
© Idil Sukan Dozens of shows for 2019 and 2020
13/11/2018 … Radio 4 has announced a raft of new comedy commissions, with programmes from the likes of Bridget Christie, Joe Lycett, Tom Allen, Harry Hill, Rowan Atkinson and…
© BBC Car Share star teases new show
13/11/2018 … Sian Gibson is working on a new comedy show with her Car Share co-star Peter Kay.
...by reading and signing a bedtime story
13/11/2018 … Rob Delaney is to become the first person to both read and sign a CBeebies Bedtime Story, The comedian and co-creator of Channel 4’s Catastrophe…
© BBC/Balloon Entertainment/Colin Hutton From the creators of The Windsors
13/11/2018 … Harry Enfield is set to play Sir Richard Branson in a new BBC comedy.
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