All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Scottish comic jailed over campaigns of abuse
06/04/2019 … Scottish comedian John David McDade, who goes by the stage name JD Brown, has been jailed for four years and three months for his campaign of abuse against two women.
© BBC 05/04/2019 … Fleabag will not be returning for a third series, one of its stars has revealed.
05/04/2019 … John Quarmby, who played the unimpressed health inspector in Fawlty Towers, had died at the age of 89.
© BBC 05/04/2019 … Alan Partridge's forthcoming series is a Simon Schama-style historical documentary of Britain, Chortle can reveal.
Demands of stand-up prove too much
05/04/2019 … Rhod Gilbert is leaving BBC Radio Wales after 13 years to return to stand-up.
'A lost soul who has finally found peace'
05/04/2019 … Roy 'Chubby' Brown is in mourning after his son died at the age of 45.
© Steve Ullathorne In a new anthology book out this autumn
04/04/2019 … Paul Merton has selected 100 of his favourite funny short stories for a new anthology to be published later this year.
© BBC ...says terror survivor Lord Tebbit
04/04/2019 … Norman Tebbit has called on Frankie Boyle to be banned from the BBC for joking that he wished the IRA would murder leading Tories.
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