Frank Skinner joins Latitude
As do Marcus Brigstocke and Milton Jones
09/04/2019 … Frank Skinner, Marcus Brigstocke and Milton Jones have been added to the comedy line-up at the Latitude festival.
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Tue 09 April 2019
E4 buys US comedy The Other Two
09/04/2019 … Channel 4 has bought the rights to American comedy show The Other Two.
Fawlty Towers named best British sitcom of all time
New top 20 compiled by comedy experts
09/04/2019 … Fawlty Towers has been named the greatest British sitcom of all time a new poll Radio Times magazine questioned a panel of 42 comedy experts to…
UK and Ireland dates for Tom Segura
In London, Manchester and Dublin
09/04/2019 … America’s Tom Segura is to play a handful of gigs this side of the Atlantic.
Comedians up for 2019 British Podcast Awards
09/04/2019 … Alex Horne, Julia Davis and James Acaster are among the nominees in this year’s British podcast awards.
Mon 08 April 2019
Channel 5 orders a 'docu-sitcom'
Like a scripted comedy, but without the writers
08/04/2019 … Channel 5 has ordered what it is describing as a ‘docu-sitcom’, showing the humour in a real-life Welsh family – but without the need to employ…
Amused Moose announces its 2019 new comedy finalists
Eight to fight it out in Edinburgh
08/04/2019 … Amused Moose has announced the finalists in its 20th anniversary National New Comic Awards Babatunde Aleshe, Basil Jamm, Dan Jones, Michael Akadiri, Patrick…
BBC buys Nick Hornby's new comedy
With Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike
08/04/2019 … BBC Two is to air a new series of comedy shorts written by Nick Hornby and starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd.