All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Channel 4 Keeley Hawes, Sally Phillips and more head for the 'Victorian-era Sweeney'
30/01/2019 … Production has started on Matt Berry’s new Victorian era police comedy, with an impressive list of stars joining the cast.
© Channel 4 'I don’t want to have to apologise again' says star James Buckley
29/01/2019 … Channel 4's Inbetweeners reunion night was so disastrous it has killed any chance of a third movie in the franchise.
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.
© ust For Laughs/ Susan Moss Photography 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.
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.
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 Written with Damned co-creator Morwenna Banks
28/01/2019 … Jo Brand is working on a new comedy series about pensioners behaving badly.
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.
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