All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Shiny Button/Ollie Upton Tom Davis's comedy picked up after a successful pilot
13/06/2019 … BBC One have picked up Tom Davis's sitcom King Gary for a series, Chortle can reveal.
...but celebrity mourners are thin on the ground
13/06/2019 … A small crowd of mourners gathered outside the Merseyside where Freddie Starr was laid to rest this afternoon.
© C4 As Kadiff Kirwan and Ricky Grover join the cast of C4 comedy
13/06/2019 … Here is the first look of Aisling Bea in her new Channel 4 comedy This Way Up.
© Rob Brydon/Twitter Rob Brydon tweets a picture of himself and Steve Coogan
13/06/2019 … Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan have begun filming The Trip To Greece.
Writer and star working on a special
13/06/2019 … It was almost universally panned by critics in the decade it was on air – yet consistently found an audience.
New BBC comedy about an ousted Prime Minister
12/06/2019 … A new BBC comedy will consider what happens to a Prime Minister once they are kicked out of No 10.
12/06/2019 … Stan & Ollie has leapt to the top of the Official Film Chart now it has been released on DVD.
...at a ceremony he's hosting!
12/06/2019 … Mo Gilligan has been nominated for best newcomer at the Edinburgh TV awards – which he just happens to be hosting.
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