All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Objective/Channel 4 Now Nigel Farage rages against Year Of The Rabbit
30/06/2019 … Nigel Farage is calling on Channel 4 to censor a scene in Matt Berry’s preposterous Victorian-era comedy Year Of The Rabbit which shows a right-wing politician…
...but this time they'll be politically correct
29/06/2019 … The Carry On film franchise could be revived after 27 years following a trademark battle – but this time the comedies will be ‘politically correct’.
29/06/2019 … Andrew Hunter Murray has signed a deal for the TV and film rights for his debut novel said to be in the ‘high six figures’.
In My Skin picked up after a 2018 pilot
28/06/2019 … The BBC has commissioned a new dark comedy series about a teenage girl whose mother has been sectioned in a mental facility.
Mario Lourides's 'deplorable' £20million scam discredited the accountancy profession
28/06/2019 … Mario Lourides, the crooked former boss of the Jongleurs comedy club chain, has been drummed out of his professional body.
28/06/2019 … Jack Whitehall, Romesh Ranganathan and David Walliams will be among the guest presenters on the next series of A League Of Their Own.
The sitcom 'experience' opens this autumn
27/06/2019 … A new Seinfeld ‘experience’ is to open in New York later this year.
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